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News Articles: astronomy

This imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid's surface.

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Astronomers still have their eyes on that asteroid NASA whacked

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid, directly altering its path through space. Scientists are still studying the space rock to learn more.

March 04, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This composite was made with images from NASA's Juno mission and shows the shadow on Jupiter cast by Io, one of its many moons.

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Here's why Jupiter's tally of moons keeps going up and up

The first astronomer to discover moons around Jupiter was Galileo, back in the year 1610, but astronomers are still finding more and more moons around this gas giant.

February 09, 2023
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The University of Arizona shared an image, pictured, of a formation on Mars that resembles a bear.

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  • Space

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse structure" resembles a snout.

January 29, 2023
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  • Giulia Heyward
The small red dot highlighted inside the white box on this James Webb Space Telescope image is an early galaxy, seen as it looked just 350 million years after the Big Bang.

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  • Science

James Webb telescope spots galaxies near the dawn of time, thrilling scientists

Galaxies that existed soon after the Big Bang turn out to be surprisingly bright, a discovery that's both thrilled and puzzled scientists who study how the universe evolved over time.

November 17, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This image of a star was taken as part of the evaluation process as the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror segments were carefully aligned.

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The James Webb Space Telescope is working as well as astronomers dreamed it would

Picture perfect: Mission managers say the telescope's mirror segments have been aligned and have focused on single stars, a critical milestone, and the telescope is working flawlessly.

March 16, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror is made up of 18 hexagonal segments. Now that the telescope is in space, mission managers need to perfectly align them so the segments work as one giant mirror.

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  • Science

The first images from NASA's new space telescope show how it's coming into focus

The James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first starlight, but its 18 mirror segments aren't yet perfectly aligned. As a result, the pictures it's sending back now aren't exactly cosmic eye candy.

February 11, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror is illuminated inside a darkened clean room. The entire telescope is now packed inside a rocket, awaiting launch.

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Why some astronomers once feared NASA's James Webb Space Telescope would never launch

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is waiting at its launch site, after years of repeated delays and cost overruns. At one point, the giant new observatory was threatened with cancellation.

December 22, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Comet Leonard is photographed from Savannah, Ga., between 5 and 6 a.m. on Wednesday.

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Leonard is the brightest comet all year. Here's how to see it

The comet was discovered less than a year ago near the orbit of Jupiter. Now, observers in North America can see it in the northeastern sky around sunrise.

December 03, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Technicians work on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will launch in December. Astronomers say the next big telescope should be designed to search signs of life on planets that orbit distant stars.

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Astronomers want NASA to build a giant space telescope to peer at alien Earths

NASA should work toward a new space telescope that could view small planets around distant stars with the potential to host life, expert panel says

November 04, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 10, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.

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  • Science

Scientists may have found a planet outside of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time

While researchers have found more than 4,000 planets in our own galaxy, this is the first time anyone has found what could be a planet that exists outside the Milky Way.

October 28, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Alien Planet

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Alien Planet-Hunters In Hundreds Of Nearby Star Systems Could Spot Earth

Potentially, observers in plenty of star systems could have detected Earth sometime in the last 5,000 years. More stars will soon move into positions that would let them see our planet.

June 24, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The moon appears to cover the sun during an annular eclipse of the sun in May 2012, as seen from Chaco Culture National Historical Park in Nageezi, N.M.

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  • Space

How To See The 'Ring Of Fire' Today

Early risers across the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see an eclipse Thursday morning when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun.

June 10, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
Astronomical text books in Latin are displayed at the Vatican Observatory.

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  • World

The Vatican's Space Observatory Wants To See Stars And Faith Align

For a long time, the Catholic Church rejected scientific findings that conflicted with its doctrine, even persecuting Galileo. Now the Vatican looks to promote its observatory as a bridge to science.

June 06, 2021
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  • Sylvia Poggioli
An STS-125 crew member onboard the space shuttle Atlantis snaps a still photo of the Hubble Space Telescope following grapple of the giant observatory by the shuttle.

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  • Science

The Hubble Space Telescope Still Works Great — Except When It Doesn't

None of us is perfect, and sometimes the Hubble Space Telescope just flat-out points to the wrong spot in the sky. This has been happening more than ever in the last couple of years.

September 08, 2020
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The Alpha Monocerotids meteor shower will be visible for Georgia residents late Thursday night, weather permitting.

Especially Active Meteor Shower Visible In Georgia Thursday

The Alpha Monocerotids meteor shower will be visible for Georgia residents late Thursday night, weather permitting. Fernbank Science Center astronomer...

November 20, 2019
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  • Sarah Rose

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