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Webb Unveils Dark Side of Pre-stellar Ice Chemistry
f you want to build a habitable planet, ices are a vital ingredient because they are the main source of several key elements —...
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Emission Nebula-Star Cluster Duo from Hubble
Against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars. This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster...
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NASA Sets Coverage of Orion’s Historic Moon Mission Return, Splashdown
NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft's return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its return to...
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NASA Science, Cargo Launches on Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,200 pounds of science...
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Stellar Siblings Host ‘Teenage’ Exoplanets Dicovered by NASA’s TESS
Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting...
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IXPE Measures Exploded Star Remains
When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way....
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Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central...
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Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers
H1821+643 is a quasar powered by a supermassive black hole, located about 3.4 billion light years from Earth. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to determine the spin of...
