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Success! Webb Sunshield Now Fully Deployed

By Nancy Atkinson - January 04, 2022 12:43 PM UTC | Telescopes
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2029 Will be the Perfect Year to Launch a Mission to Sedna

By sjohnston - January 01, 2022 09:35 PM UTC | Missions
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A Detailed Scan of the Milky Way Finds Possible "Fossil" Spiral Arms

By Matthew Williams - January 01, 2022 05:50 PM UTC | Milky Way
New research has revealed previously unknown wispy structures in the Milky Way disk that could offer clues about the history of our galaxy.
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JWST Just Deployed a Sail That Lets it Stop Getting Pushed Around by the Sun's Radiation.

By Matthew Williams - December 31, 2021 02:36 PM UTC | Telescopes
The James Webb just deployed another important instrument - the aft momentum flap - that will keep the telescope steady as it makes its groundbreaking observations.
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An Exoplanet Found Protected by a Magnetosphere

By Matthew Williams - December 31, 2021 12:09 PM UTC | Exoplanets
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has spotted the magnetosphere of an exoplanet for the first time.
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Still Nervous about JWST? Friday and Saturday's Sunshield Deployments will be Nail-biters

By Nancy Atkinson - December 30, 2021 03:45 PM UTC | Telescopes
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Want Updates on JWST? NASA's Site Will Bury you in Data: Distance, Temperatures, Deployment Stats... Everything

By Nancy Atkinson - December 30, 2021 11:43 AM UTC | Telescopes
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JWST's Precise Launch and Near-Perfect Course Corrections Mean Fuel Savings. And That Means a Longer Mission

By Nancy Atkinson - December 29, 2021 02:48 PM UTC | Missions
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If you had Radio Telescopes for Eyes, one of the Biggest Things in the sky Would be a jet of Material Blasting out of a Nearby Galaxy

By Brian Koberlein - December 29, 2021 10:50 AM UTC | Extragalactic
Astronomers have captured a radio galaxy that spans 16 Moon-widths in the sky.
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Astronomy 2022: Top Skywatching Events for the Coming Year

By David Dickinson - December 29, 2021 08:39 AM UTC | Observing
Meteor showers, eclipses and a fine opposition of Mars top out astronomy 2022.
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New Calculations Show That an Interstellar Bussard Ramjet Drive Would Need a Magnetic Field Stretching 150 Million Kilometres

By Matthew Williams - December 28, 2021 05:36 PM UTC | Physics
A new analysis of the fabled Bussard Ramjet shows that the spacecraft would need an impossibly big magnetic field to achieve interstellar travel.
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Here's DART's First Picture From Space. We Are Already Looking Forward to its Last Image

By Nancy Atkinson - December 28, 2021 02:27 PM UTC | Missions
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The Real Science Behind the Movie "Don't Look Up"

By Nancy Atkinson - December 28, 2021 01:08 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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JWST Is On Its Way!

By Nancy Atkinson - December 26, 2021 10:42 AM UTC | Telescopes
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Primordial Black Holes Could Explain Dark Matter and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes at the Same Time

By Brian Koberlein - December 24, 2021 12:17 PM UTC | Black Holes
The James Webb telescope might discover primordial black holes in the near future.
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Best Image Ever Taken of Stars Buzzing Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - December 23, 2021 02:28 PM UTC | Black Holes
The GRAVITY collaboration just released the clearest images ever of the stars that orbit the supermassive black hole in the heart of our galaxy!
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This Video of Comet Leonard (with Venus and Mercury) will Blow Your Mind

By Nancy Atkinson - December 22, 2021 07:37 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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The Bottom of Valles Marineris Seems to Have Water Mixed in With the Regolith

By Matthew Williams - December 22, 2021 06:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science
According to data obtained by ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter, it looks like there's plenty of water ice at the bottom of Valles Marineris on Mars.
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Life Could Make Habitable Pockets in Venus' Atmosphere

By sjohnston - December 22, 2021 05:49 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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SpaceX is Hoping to Turn Atmospheric CO2 Into Rocket Fuel

By Matthew Williams - December 21, 2021 08:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX may start a carbon capture program as an eco-friendly way of creating propellant.
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