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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Mystery: Engineers Investigating Telemetry Data
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this artist’s concept traveling through space against a field of stars, has been exploring…
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Webb Space Telescope Nearly Set to Explore the Solar System
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble…
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: James Webb Space Telescope
In addition to looking at distant stars, galaxies, and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar…
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Massive Stars Play a Crucial Role in Shaping Their Surroundings: How Do the Simulation Models Stack Up?
Figure 1: The 30 Doradus nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home…
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Astronomers Find “Gold Standard” Star in Milky Way With the Widest Range of Elements
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey…
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Physicists Explain Mysterious “Discrete Aurora” on Mars
Researchers led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. In a…
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This Week @NASA: Total Lunar Eclipse, Hunting Marsquakes, Boeing Starliner, and Supersonic X-Plane Mission
The next commercial crew test mission to the space station … Outlining the agency’s objectives for deep space exploration ….…
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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Starts Processing at Kennedy Space Center
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Bound for an asteroid of the same name, the…
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Experiments Measure Freezing Point of Extraterrestrial Oceans To Aid Search for Alien Life
The left panel’s gray and blue layers show the deep, ice-covered ocean on Europa, a moon of Jupiter that could…
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