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Distant Planet May Be On Its 2nd Atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Finds
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star that may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity. The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have...
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Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images
A team of astronomers at The Ohio State University watched a star disappear and possibly become a black hole. Instead of becoming a black hole through the expected process of a supernova, the black hole candidate formed through a "failed...
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NASA | Fermi at Five Years
This compilation summarizes the wide range of science from the first five years of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi is a NASA observatory designed to reveal the high-energy universe in never-before-seen detail. Launched in...
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Did the Hubble Telescope Confirm the First Exomoon?
The Hubble and Kepler space telescopes found evidence for what could be a giant moon accompanying a gas-giant planet that orbits the star Kepler-1625, located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The moon may be as big as...
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Hubble Makes Unexpected Dark Matter Discovery
Astronomers seem to have revealed a puzzling detail in the way dark matter behaves. They found small, dense concentrations of dark matter that bend and magnify light much more strongly than expected. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: SOFIA Shows Ceres' True Composition: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on January 19, 2017.
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NASA | Top Solar Discoveries: #5
A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. An introduction plus Number 5 in...
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NASA | Swift and Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash
Late last year, astronomers noticed that an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope show that these changes likely occurred...
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Five smaller asteroids heading towards Earth pose significant threat
Between 100,000 and a million small-scale asteroids have a possibility of hitting Earth over the next century, and five in particular have a collision risk of one in 1,000.
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Swift Mission Catches a Comet Slowdown
Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission's late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal...
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NASA | Zombie Fomalhaut b: Study of Hubble Data Revives a 'Dead' Exoplanet
A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named Fomalhaut b, is a rare and possibly unique object that...
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Hubble Directly Images Possible Plumes on Europa
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took direct ultraviolet images of the icy moon Europa transiting across the disk of Jupiter. Out of ten observations, Hubble saw what may be water vapor plumes on three of the images. This adds another piece...
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I WONDER - How Many Moons Does Pluto Have?
This video is answering the question of how many moons does Pluto have.
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I WONDER - What Is Special About The Moon Charon?
This video is answering the question of what is special about The Moon Charon.
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Scientists confirm existence of new 'waterworld' planet GJ1214B
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a new class of planet - a waterworld with a thick, steamy atmosphere. Exoplanet GJ 1214b is 40 light years away, about 2.7 times the Earth's diameter and with a mass just seven times greater....
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NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
Measurements from NASAs Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known. Located about 670 light-years...
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NASA | JWST Feature - Evolution of the Universe
Astrophyscists and astonomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to unravel mysteries about the evolution of the Universe. The Webb telscope will help observe how the first stars gathered into the first galaxies, and those first...
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Scientists want giant ‘liquid mirror’ telescope on moon
Liquid mirrors are lighter, simpler, faster to construct, and ten times cheaper than conventional glass mirrors
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NASA | Webb Telescope Planetary Studies Web Feature
The Webb Space Telescope will study planetary bodies with our solar system and planets orbiting other stars to help scientists better understand how planets form and how they evolve.
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The Evolution of Telescopes: From Galileo to Hubble
People have been looking at outer space through telescopes since the time of Galileo. Learn how telescopes work and how they have expanded what we know about our solar system.
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Hitomi Measures Perseus Galaxy Cluster's X-ray Winds
Measurements of unprecedented detail returned by Japan's Hitomi satellite have allowed scientists to track the motion of X-ray-emitting gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster of galaxies for the first time. The results showcase the...
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NASA’s new tool for finding Earth-killing asteroids
NASA is creating the best tool for spotting an Earth-killing asteroid before it’s too late to do anything about it.
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NASA | X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary
O-type stars are among the most massive and hottest known, pounding their surroundings with intense ultraviolet light and powerful outflows called stellar winds. NASA's Swift and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatories took part in a 2011...
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Quasars: The Brightest Objects in Space
Learn all about quasars, extremely bright objects in outer space powered by black holes. This video explains how they were discovered, their connection to supermassive black holes, and their significance in understanding the early...