Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
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NASA's Hubble tracks down a 'blue lurker' among stars
The star's high spin rate was discovered with NASA's retired Kepler space telescope. While normal Sun-like stars typically take about 30 days to complete one rotation, the lurker takes only four days.
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
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Commentary: New telescope may answer our oldest questions
The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...
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An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals
Previous observations led by astronomer Emily Leiner using NASA's retired Kepler space telescope had revealed that all of M67's 500 stellar residents are about four billion years old, save for a ...
7 rarest images captured by NASA
The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away. The galaxy’s relative proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among its stars. This image from ...
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NASA has created a more powerful James Webb Space Telescope for $488,000,000 to find answers from the beginning of time
NASA is launching a new space telescope more powerful than its James Webb counterpart which will be able to shed more light ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope set to challenge James Webb Space Telescope in 2027; here's how
NASA's Roman Space Telescope, slated for a 2027 launch, will provide insights into dark energy and exoplanets. It will undergo rigorous testing to ensure durability in space conditions.
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Nasa to launch advanced space telescope, potentially surpassing JWST
An eggshell white, conical probe named SPHEREx, which stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionisation and Ices Explorer will enter Nasa's space telescope epic ...