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The most successful space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
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Space telescope Gaia 'retired'
Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...
Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far, far away
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making ...
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...
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'Cosmic tornado' swirls in breathtaking new James Webb Space Telescope image
HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...
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Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far, far away
NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background ...