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NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts
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Editor’s note, April 18, 2024: BurstCube deployed into orbit from the space station April 18, 2024. It will begin a…
Article2 months ago
Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site…
Article3 months ago
NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals
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Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers were able to zoom in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as…
Article3 months ago
Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a rare event in an oddball place. It’s called a fast radio…
Article4 months ago
NASA’s BurstCube Passes Milestones on Journey to Launch
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Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft…
Article5 months ago
NASA’s Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars … and Counting
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A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered…
Article5 months ago
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