A terrifying fate may lurk inside the Milky Way
The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...
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How do spiral galaxies get 'feathers'? All it takes is a little gravity
Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...
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James Webb discovers a ‘star factory’ — It’s inside a monster nebula
NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers a ‘star factory’ inside the Flame Nebula, offering new insights into star formation and ...
Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
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NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...
Spherex: Nasa's cutting-edge telescope searching for the origins of life
Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...
NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off from Vandenberg to map sky, explore dawn of universe
Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.
SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...
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NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
In particular, astronomers are eager to look inside molecular clouds ... If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries ...