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NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier,…

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Two black holes are illustrated orbiting in a cloud of gas.

NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes

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Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair…

Article4 weeks ago
A green diffuse mass representing a molecular cloud

Buckle Up: NASA-Funded Study Explores Turbulence in Molecular Clouds

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On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in…

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A technician inspects a prototype LISA telescope.

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

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NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade,…

Article2 months ago

NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets

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Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to…

Article2 months ago
A pair of interacting galaxies. The larger of the two galaxies is slightly right of center, and composed of a hazy, bright, white center and a ring of gaseous filaments, which are different shades of red and orange. Toward the bottom left and bottom right of the ring are filaments of gas spiraling inward toward the core. At the top left of the ring is a noticeable gap, bordered by two large, orange pockets of dust and gas. The smaller galaxy to its left is made of hazy white gas and dust, which becomes more diffuse farther away from its center. To this galaxy’s bottom left, there is a smaller, more diffuse gas cloud that wafts outward toward the edges. Many red, orange, and white galaxies are spread throughout, with some hazier in composition and others having more defined spiral patterns.

NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions

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Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems…

Article3 months ago
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