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The James Webb Space Telescope is doing something astronomers dreamed about for decades: peering into our universe’s early past, a…
About EXCITE EXCITE plans to study hot Jupiters, gas giant exoplanets that complete an orbit once every one to two…
Desde que comenzó sus observaciones científicas en 2022, el telescopio espacial James Webb de la NASA ha marcado un antes…
Editor’s note: EXCITE successfully launched at 9:22 a.m. EDT (7:22 a.m. MDT) Saturday, Aug. 31. The balloon and payload reached…
Watch Us Build Two New Missions Welcome to the High Bay 1 clean room in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at…
Editor’s Note: The GUSTO mission successfully launched on a scientific balloon from Antarctica Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec.…
The handsome Horsehead Nebula, rearing up against glowing red gas, is sculpted from dust. Like many of the most iconic…
Visible Light Because our atmosphere blocks or partially absorbs certain wavelengths, Hubble’s position 320 miles above Earth’s surface puts it…
Spitzer uses an ultra-sensitive infrared telescope to study asteroids, comets, planets and distant galaxies.
