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‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions
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NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice at an unprecedented scale. Covering regions in our Milky Way galaxy more than 600 light-years across, the ice was found…
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NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly
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Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our Sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. A paper describing the results published…
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NASA-JAXA’s XRISM Telescope Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82
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For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity at the heart of M82.
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