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NASA Research To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting

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From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA missions will be highlighted at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The meeting will take place Jan. 12-16…

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A field filled with distant galaxies. An elliptical galaxy just to the right of image center is surrounded by an Einstein Ring.

Hubble Rings In the New Year

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest to us are stars…

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Astronaut Set to Patch NASA’s X-ray Telescope Aboard Space Station

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NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray telescope on the International Space Station as part of a spacewalk scheduled for Jan. 16. Hague, along with astronaut Suni Williams, will also…

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