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What is a dead galaxy? Astronomers spot one that stopped forming stars 700M years after Big Bang
Big Bang, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy ever seen using the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) ...
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New moon of April 2025 sees Venus and Saturn join up in the sky this weekend
The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...
New solar instrument captures first high-resolution images at world's largest telescope
The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...
Largest imaging spectro-polarimeter achieves first light at solar telescope
The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by ...
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World's largest solar telescope captures sun's surface with unmatched clarity
The telescope has been installed with the world's largest spectro-polarimeter, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF).
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Photographing the Moon: One Man’s Quest to Capture the Lunar Surface
Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...
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Pillars Of Creation In 3D Created From Webb And Hubble Space Telescope Data
See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...
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Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still out on what it all means.'
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Catches First-Ever Death of a Planet — But It Didn’t Happen the Way Scientists Thought
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to engulf it as previously thought. Read more on Republicworld.com ...
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These Are the First Images of the Universe Snapped By Telescope That'll 3D-Map the Sky
From its position in a low-Earth, Sun-synchronous orbit, the telescope will have to map the entire sky a total of four times during its primary two-year mission. There is hope that the SPHEREx ...
See the first images from NASA’s newest space observatory, SPHEREx
A brand new NASA space observatory, SPHEREx, has taken its first test images a few weeks after its launch on March 11, and all indications are looking good for it to take wide and gorgeous views of ...