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New Year, New Era: Very Cold Detectors Reveal the Very Hot Universe of X-Ray Astronomy

NASA's XRISM mission is transforming X-ray astronomy with advanced detectors operating at near absolute zero. These innovations are providing new insights into the hottest and most energetic regions of the universe, from the remnants of exploding stars to the forces shaping galaxies.

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Resolve detector scientist Caroline Kilbourne installs the flight Resolve quantum-calorimeter array into the assembly that provides its electrical, thermal, and mechanical interfaces.
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Sparkling Spray of Stars

Shining through the darkness like sparks left behind by a firework, this glittering group of stars is NGC 2660 in the constellation Vela.

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Bright blue-white stars fill the scene, but are concentrated on the right side of the image. a bright reddish-orange star sits in the upper left quadrant of the image near image center.

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Cosmic Births:
Hubble’s Window into Protoplanetary Disks

In this video, Dr. Padi Boyd explains how Hubble’s observations unravel the mysteries of planet formation and provide a glimpse into the birthplaces of new solar systems.

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Hubble Captures Young Stars Changing Their Environments

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NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe

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A Celestial Fireworks Display

Delicate sheets and intricate filaments form in the debris from the cataclysmic death of a massive star that once lived in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

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