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The Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet

The JWST’s size and sensitivity enabled it to collect more light from this planet than any previous observatory has obtained. (Its photo looks...

Henry James - September 11, 2022

Science

As Wildfires Get More Extreme, Observatories Are at Greater Risk

It was 4 am on June 17 when Michelle Edwards, associate director of Kitt Peak National Observatory, got the news: A wildfire had...

Ariel Shapiro - August 16, 2022

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The Physics of the James Webb Space Telescope

There's truly one other good motive to make use of infrared gentle for the JWST: It's tough to get an unobstructed view of...

Ariel Shapiro - January 7, 2022

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Astronomers Discover a Strange Galaxy Without Dark Matter

Three years in the past, Filippo Fraternali and his colleagues noticed a half dozen mysteriously diffuse galaxies, which seemed like sprawling cities of...

Ariel Shapiro - January 7, 2022

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To Study the Next Earth, NASA May Need to Throw Some Shade

The HabEx group has proposed a 4-meter telescope paired with a coronagraph and a star shade 52 meters in diameter. (“Having both a...

Ariel Shapiro - January 4, 2022

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The James Webb Space Telescope Finally Prepares for Launch

More not too long ago, some astronomers and astrophysicists have argued that NASA ought to rename its new flagship observatory. In a March...

Ariel Shapiro - December 23, 2021

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NASA Tries to Save Hubble, Again

Jeletic and his group additionally strive to anticipate potential mishaps. For instance, they discovered that the skinny wires Hubble’s gyroscopes depend upon steadily...

Ariel Shapiro - November 10, 2021

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