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Astounding images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
To do that, humans have built some of the most spectacular astronomical observatories around the world, capable of peering into the vast void of space and capturing images that astound. The James Webb ...
Asteroid Large Enough to Destroy an Entire City Could Still Strike the Moon in 2032, Scientists Say
The infamous 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4, which is large enough to destroy an entire city, still has a 2% chance of ...
Webb Spots Ancient Galaxy Breaking Through the Universe’s Primordial Fog
Astronomers have found early evidence of the Universe’s transformation from a foggy, opaque state to a transparent one, ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'
This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...
Skywatch: Putting Hubble’s cosmic discoveries into focus
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
NASA shocker: Asteroid feared to strike Earth now on course to obliterate the Moon, scientists warn
NASA has updated its estimates for asteroid 2024 YR4, initially thought to hit Earth. The risk of an Earth impact in 2032 has ...
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Galaxies die earlier than expected
For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe.
Scientists Spotted Evidence of an Unseen Universe—Even Though That Should Be Impossible
For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN22h
From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
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Webb Telescope Catches Earliest Evidence of the Universe Turning On Its Lights
In a nutshell A galaxy from just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been caught emitting a specific type of light (Lyman-alpha) that normally gets blocked by the early universe’s dense hydrogen ...
Auroras Spotted on Neptune for the First Time | Vantage with Palki Sharma
Auroras Spotted on Neptune for the First Time | Vantage with Palki Sharma For the first time, auroras have been spotted on ...
Scientists excited about the possible collision of asteroid 2024 YR4 with the Moon: “Hopefully it will have an impact”
YR4 was classified in February at Level 3 on the Torino Scale prompting the UN to activate the Planetary Security Protocol ...