Hubble's largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across ...
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Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...
Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
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An alien planet has winds that blow at 33,000 kilometres per hour
Observations of WASP-127b, a giant gas exoplanet more than 500 light years from Earth, suggest it has phenomenally high wind ...
Satellite firm bucks miniaturization trend, aims to build big for big rockets
Founded a little less than three years ago, K2 seeks to disrupt the production of large satellites by focusing on vertical ...
A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.
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Explore the constellation Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia (pronounced kass ee oh pee' uh) the Queen is one of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize ...
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Bright Galaxies of the Early Universe Defy Expectations, Sending Astronomers Back to the Drawing Board
The James Webb Space Telescope has found evidence of large, bright galaxies in the early universe ... This observation supports the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) theory, which disputes the role ...
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Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025
Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos
The observatory was first proposed in 2001. Then called the Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), it grew out of an earlier concept for an instrument that would study dark matter ...