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Roman Series: Jupiters Around Other Suns
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar system. NASA scientists Bertrand…

Aug 18, 2026
Roman Series: NASA’s New View of the Dark Universe
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Meet NASA’s newest space telescope: Roman. With similar resolution to Hubble but a field of view 100 times larger, the…

Aug 11, 2026
NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants
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A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar…

Jun 17, 2026
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NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond
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A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is launching to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and their stars.

Jan 9, 2026
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How Webb Illuminates Stars’ Cloudy Origins
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In the space between stars, dark clouds of gas, dust, and ice mingle in a chemical laboratory unlike any on…

Sep 30, 2025
Why Webb’s Earliest Galaxies Are Blowing Scientists’ Minds
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With the James Webb Space Telescope, we are seeing the early universe like never before. Webb produces beautiful images and…

Jul 29, 2025
Cosmic Dawn with Nobel Laureate John Mather
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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…

Jun 4, 2025
EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope)
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EXCITE's goal is to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system.

Nov 25, 2024
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Explorando el cosmos con Webb
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Desde que comenzó sus observaciones científicas en 2022, el telescopio espacial James Webb de la NASA ha marcado un antes…

Oct 15, 2024

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Observations from NASA Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, have shown a surprising surplus of infrared light filling the spaces between galaxies.
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a little like the Vincent van Gogh of the infrared sky, providing the world with picturesque images of the cosmos by representing infrared light through color. This image is the nebula NGC 2174.
This plot shows data from the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, rockets launched in 2010 and 2012. The experiment measures a diffuse glow of infrared light in the sky, known as the cosmic infrared background.
In this artist's rendering of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light.
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this colorful image of the reflection nebula IRAS 12116-6001. This cloud of interstellar dust cannot be seen directly in visible light, but WISE detectors observed the nebula at infrared wavelengths.
Radiation and winds from massive stars have blown a cavity into the surrounding dust and gas, creating the Trifid nebula, as seen here in infrared light by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this infrared light image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The very center glows especially brightly in the infrared.
New stars are forming inside this giant cloud of dust and gas as seen in infrared light by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, spanning across the constellation Vela.
This chart based on data from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer illustrates why infrared-sensing telescopes are more suited to finding small, dark asteroids than telescopes that detect visible light.
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