NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
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Hubble Space Telescope spots a spectacular Bullseye in deep space (image)
Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a ...
SPHEREx Space Telescope to Map Cosmos in Infrared Light, Launching in February 2025
The SPHEREx space telescope, launching in February 2025, will map the cosmos in infrared light, helping scientists understand ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space ...
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Comet G3 (ATLAS) looks breathtaking above future home of world's largest telescope (photos)
A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the ... a statement accompanying the photo. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...
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NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope
They told him to either justify an idea that many were calling crazy, or quit. His concept was for a space telescope dedicated to detecting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, which orbit stars ...
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How Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Nearly Broke Cosmology—and Helped Fix It
About a year after launching into orbit around the Sun, the James Webb Space Telescope began imaging an abundance of little red dots, which scientists called, um, “little red dots.” ...
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope set to challenge James Webb Space Telescope in 2027; here's how
NASA's Roman Space Telescope, slated for a 2027 launch, will provide insights into dark energy and exoplanets. It will undergo rigorous testing to ensure durability in space conditions.
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Nasa to launch advanced space telescope, potentially surpassing JWST
He said: "What SPHEREx and other survey missions can do is almost like going into panorama mode, when you want to catch a big group of people and the things standing behind or around them." Aboard ...
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james webb space telescope
This is why especially space-based observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope love to hang around in these spots.
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A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece ...
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This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years, the space agency hopes to launch an infrared space telescope devoted to ...