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NASA, JAXA XRISM Mission Looks Deeply Into ‘Hidden’ Stellar System
The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within…
NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes
Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair…
‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair
Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The…
Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All
It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. When astronomers got their…
How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic Dawn
Today, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the case. During its infancy, the universe was…
Coming in Hot — NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets
This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be…
