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Astronomers Discover a Totally New Kind of Nebula
A New Image Reveals Orion's Flame Nebula in Infrared
China's Rover Checks out that Weird Cube on the Moon. Surprise! It's a Rock.
Here's Why Webb Doesn't Have Cameras on Board to Livestream its Deployment
An Incredible View Into the Heart of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Why don't Green Comets Have Green Tails?
Comets with a green glow don't have green tails, and a new set of lab experiments tells us why.
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Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way, a Filament of Hydrogen 1,600 Light-Years Long
An international team of astronomers spotted the largest filament of hydrogen in our galaxy, which could offer tantalizing clues about how stars are born.
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JWST Deploys its Secondary Mirror. It's a Real Telescope Now
China's Tianwen-1 Spacecraft Took a Selfie Using a Tiny, Secondary Spacecraft
Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free in the Milky Way
A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets - the largest sample ever!
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Success! Webb Sunshield Now Fully Deployed
2029 Will be the Perfect Year to Launch a Mission to Sedna
A Detailed Scan of the Milky Way Finds Possible "Fossil" Spiral Arms
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.
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
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
Want Updates on JWST? NASA's Site Will Bury you in Data: Distance, Temperatures, Deployment Stats... Everything
JWST's Precise Launch and Near-Perfect Course Corrections Mean Fuel Savings. And That Means a Longer Mission
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
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
Meteor showers, eclipses and a fine opposition of Mars top out astronomy 2022.
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