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NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky…

Article2 months ago

NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals

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Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers were able to zoom in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as…

Article2 months ago
Walker at LDBF sign

NASA’s GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars

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Editor’s Note: The GUSTO mission successfully launched on a scientific balloon from Antarctica Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec.…

Article4 months ago

NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

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The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in…

Article5 months ago

NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play

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For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to…

Article5 months ago

Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Woke Up 200 Years Ago, NASA’s IXPE Finds

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Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, woke some 200 years ago to…

Article10 months ago