ESA Euclid Mission to Explore the Hidden Side of the Universe Gets Go-Ahead
ESA’s Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe – dark energy and dark matter – reached an important milestone on June 20 that…
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Successful Liftoff for NASA’S NuSTAR Mission
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at noon EDT (9 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, beginning its mission…
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Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope Detects the Highest-Energy Light From a Solar Flare
During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The…
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NASA’s WISE Finds Only a Handful of Brown Dwarf Stars in Our Celestial Backyard
Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out…
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The First Objects in the Universe Burned Furiously
The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA’s Spitzer…
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Pillars and Bubbles in the Carina Nebula
Giant bubbles, towering pillars and cascading clouds of dust and gas fill the star-forming nursery of the Carina Nebula seen here in a stunning new view…
Read the articleNASA NuSTAR X-Ray Telescope in Final Preparations for June 13 Launch
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.…
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Herschel Snaps Stunning Image of Cygnus-X Star Nursery
Chaotic networks of dust and gas signpost the next generations of massive stars in this stunning new image of the Cygnus-X star-nursery captured by ESA’s Herschel…
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Galaxies With Powerful, Active Black Holes Produce Fewer Stars
The Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black…
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Europe Delivers MIRI – the First Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope
The first instrument to be completed for the James Webb Space Telescope, MIRI, was handed over by the European consortium that built it to ESA at…
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