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Algae Swirls Across a South African Reservoir
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Vivid green blooms form, drift, and fade in Hartbeespoortdam reservoir over the course of a year.

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Supernova Remnant Video From NASA’s Chandra Is Decades in Making
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A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first spotted in…

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Life Science Fills Day as Expedition 74 Nears Thursday Spacewalk
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Exercise research and biomedical science promoting healthy humans on and off Earth topped the schedule aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. Meanwhile, two NASA astronauts are preparing for the year’s first spacewalk, scheduled to begin Thursday.

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Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope
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After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features.…

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NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust
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Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding of metallic iron dust and silicon carbide…

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Reaching the Precipice in Angola 
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The Huíla plateau, bounded by dramatic cliffs and chasms, stands above the arid coastal plains in the country’s southwest.

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NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time
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By Michael Allen  For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star. Using IXPE’s unique X-ray polarization capability, astronomers examined a star called the intermediate polar EX Hydrae, unlocking the…

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NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission
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NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept – the first mission that would directly image Earth-like planets around stars like our Sun and study the chemical composition of their…

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What’s Up: January 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
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Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest all year, the Moon and Saturn pair up, and the Beehive Cluster buzzes into view.

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Expedition 74 Gears Up for First Spacewalk of 2026
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The Expedition 74 crew is gearing up for the first spacewalk of 2026 this week that will see two astronauts prepare the International Space Station for a new set of roll-out solar arrays. The orbital residents also had time on…

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