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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, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will…

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Exoplanet WASP-69 b orbits in front of its star, with a gaseous tail flowing behind it.

Discovery Alert: A Planet with a ‘Tail’

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The Planet WASP-69 b The Discovery The exoplanet WASP-69 b has a “tail,” leaving a trail of gas in its wake. Key Takeaway  WASP-69 b is slowly losing its atmosphere as light hydrogen and helium particles in the planet’s outer…

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A dark planet, left, is shown in close orbit around its star, right; some of the planet's atmosphere is being blown outward by the star.

Discovery Alert: a ‘Hot Neptune’ in a Tight Orbit

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By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as…

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