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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look
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Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror will collect and focus light from…
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Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the active spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88), located about 63 million light-years away.
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NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy
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Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can gobble…
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