The Kepler Space Telescope Could Yet Be Revived
In an interesting twist to the story of NASA’s ace planet-hunting telescope Kepler, mission managers have announced their intention to bring the mission back online despite…
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NASA’s Great Observatories Teaming Up for Deepest Look Into the Universe
NASA’s Great Observatories are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from natural “zoom lenses” found in space, they…
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ESA’s Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of…
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Elusive Signals From the Early Universe Detected by Herschel
Using a telescope in Antarctica and ESA’s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have made the first detection of a subtle twist in the relic radiation from the…
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Patchy Clouds on Kepler 7b Identified by Kepler and Spitzer
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like…
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NuSTAR Starts Returning X-Ray Images of the Cosmos
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray images of the cosmos. The first…
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Spitzer Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency’s…
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Could There Be Hope in Getting the Kepler Space Telescope Working Again?
On Wednesday (July 24), some cautiously optimistic news from the team attempting to recover NASA’s stricken Kepler space telescope was announced. The recovery effort, which began…
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The tiny dot against the streaking star field in the image below is one of the last views that ground-based observers will see of ESA’s iconic…
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ARKYD Kickstarter Campaign Closing Tonight – Help Support Citizen Science
Planetary Resourecs are in the final hours of their crowdfunding campaign. They have a lot in store for you during their LIVE FINALE EVENT, beginning at 3:00…
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