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Artist's illustration of the SPHEREx spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA launches SPHEREx, a space telescope that may rewrite the story of the universe's origins

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The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the entire sky ever. Launching this weekend from Vandenberg Space Center in California, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
The Webb Space Telescope has provided evidence that contradicts existing theories by confirming the existence of long-lived protoplanetary disks in heavy-element-deficient environments, suggesting the need to change our understanding of planet formation in the early universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido de Markey (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)

The James Webb Space Telescope challenges theories about the formation of planets in the early universe

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New discoveries indicate that protoplanetary discs can survive longer in environments poor in heavy elements, contrary to previous assumptions
The main asteroid belt. Image: NASA

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals the smallest asteroids yet found in the main asteroid belt

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A group of 138 new asteroids, ranging in size from a bus to a stadium, has been discovered in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter by observations of the Webb Space Telescope
This image of the Sombrero galaxy, taken by Webb's Medium AA camera, is shown with compass arrows, a scale, and a color key. The image shows wavelengths of medium AA light translated into visible light colors. The color key shows the filters used when they collected the light. The color of each filter name is the color of the visible light used to represent the AA light passing through that filter. The north and east compass arrows show the direction of the image in the sky. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

The Webb Space Telescope photographs the Sombrero Galaxy in a new light

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The time travel of the James Webb Space Telescope. Photo: NASA

A bright surprise in the early universe: new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope

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Among the impressive achievements of the telescope is the detection of very early galaxies, which developed only about 300 million years after the Big Bang
From the design of the spacecraft to launch and operation - the journey is long. Key components of NASA's SPHEREx instrument, designed to investigate important questions about the universe, now in its more realized state. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's SPHEREx Satellite: Exploring the Universe in 102 Infrared Colors 

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"This is the first mission to view the entire sky in so many colors," said Jamie Bock, principal investigator of SPHEREx, which operates jointly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech.
The JWST space telescope after completing functional tests, from [17]

It's not just engineering, it's art - the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared detector cooling system

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The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559 as seen by the James B. Space Telescope. The galaxy contains a clear central region with a distinctive open pattern in the loose spiral arms. NGC 1559 is about 35 million light-years away in the little-observed southern constellation, the Reticulum. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, J. Lee and the PHANGS team.

The light of knowledge: a new look at the grief into the southern group of the hunting net

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The Hubble Space Telescope photograph of NGC 1559 shows the active star formation regions of the galaxy using special light filters
MCG+07-07-072, a spiral bar galaxy in the Perseus cluster, stands out in its ring-like spiral arms in this Hubble image. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Chilingarian

Heavenly beauty: discover a "ring galaxy" that challenges expectations

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The "ring galaxy" classification is reserved for unique galaxies with a circular ring of gas and star formation, much as spiral arms are seen, but completely detached from the galactic nucleus - or even without a nucleus at all.
The James Webb Space Telescope in front of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, the first galaxy field revealed by the telescope. Early results from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed surprisingly large early galaxies, challenging current cosmic models. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Tel Aviv 360 podcast: Two years of James Webb, episode 1: The great wonder in the sky

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In the first episode we will talk with Professor Dan Maoz, from the School of Physics and Astronomy: we will understand how the telescope works and what distinguishes it from its predecessors, about the advantage of viewing in infrared light, how the scientific community works with the telescope,
The 25 most interesting images taken by the Chandra Space Telescope in its 25 years so far. Credit: NASA/SAO/CXC

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 25 Years With Impressive Cosmic Images

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Since its launch in 1999, Chandra has helped unravel cosmic mysteries, supported the research of thousands of astronomers, and maintained its status as a cornerstone of astrophysical research.
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an extrasolar planet about 12 light-years from Earth. Although there were hints that the planet existed, it was not confirmed until Webb photographed it. The planet is one of the coldest exoplanets observed so far.

Webb photographs a cold extrasolar planet 12 light years away

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The mass of the planet, named Epsilon Indi Ab, is about three times that of Jupiter and it orbits the K-type star Epsilon Indi A, which is about the age of the Sun but is slightly
For the first time, a phenomenon that astronomers had long hoped to photograph directly has been captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). In this spectacular image of the Serpent Nebula, the discovery is in the northern region of the Young Zone And this star-forming relative NASA, ESA, CSA

Alignment of dipolar jets confirms star formation theories

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First-of-its-kind identification of straight jets in spectacular new Webb Space Telescope image
19 spiral galaxies imaged by the Webb Space Telescope. Courtesy of the European Space Agency and NASA

Web shows amazing structures in 19 nearby spiral galaxies

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These are relatively close galaxies that face the Earth. The research reveals new details about the way galaxies are formed
long image captionThis is part of the Evolution of the Universe Early Science Survey (CEERS), consisting of several near-infrared points from the NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) camera on the James Webb Space Telescope. These observations are being made in the same region studied by the Hubble Space Telescope, known as the Extended Groth Belt. Arrows showing the directions north and east show the direction of the image in the sky. It should be noted that the relationship between north and east in the sky (as seen from below) is reversed compared to the half directions on the map of the earth (as seen from above). The image shows invisible near-infrared wavelengths converted to visible colors. The color key shows which NIRCam filters were used to collect the light. The name color of each filter is the visible color that represents the infrared light passing through that filter. The barrel ruler is marked with arc-seconds which are a measure of angular distance in the sky. One arc-second is equal to an angular measurement of 1/3600 of one degree. There are 60 arc-minutes in a degree and 60 arc-seconds in an arc-minute. (The full moon has an angular diameter of about 30 arc-minutes.) The actual size of an object that covers one arc-second in the sky depends on its distance from the telescope. Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Steve Finkelstein (University of Texas at Austin)

The James Webb telescope reveals: galaxies in the early universe have a long and flat shape

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The first galaxies were much less developed than the spiral and spherical galaxies that exist today, which are actually the result of mergers, both because of the stage of development but also because of the conditions that prevailed at the time
This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows Aram-Mador 2105-332, a unique galaxy system in the Microscope Group. It is known for its emission line galaxies, which indicate vigorous star formation. It appears in Hubble's picture of the week, and that the names were given to galaxies using astronomical coordinates. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Acknowledgment: L. Shatz

Parade of Galaxies: The stunning star show from Hubble

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Two of these galaxies close to each other are a rare type of emission line galaxies, because they are undergoing a massive process of new star birth. The others are at different distances but line up nicely in a row
A multi-color view of MACS0416, a galaxy cluster about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth. The image was created by combining infrared observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope with visible light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The resulting prismatic panorama of the blues and reds gives clues to the distances of the galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Jordan CJ D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Rogier Windhorst (ASU), Haojing Yan ( University of Missouri

"Christmas Tree" galaxy cluster: NASA's Webb and Hubble join forces for dizzying masterpiece

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The stunning image represents one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever taken, revealing a rich landscape of galaxies along with more than a dozen variable objects discovered for the first time
The large galaxy at the front of the image is LEDA 2046648, and it looks just over a billion years back in time, while most of the others are even further away, and therefore look further back in time. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Martel

Looking into the past: how James Webb is rewriting our understanding of ancient galaxies

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Jupiter (Webb NIRCam image): This image of Jupiter from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) shows spectacular detail of the planet, which is impressive in infrared light. In this image, brightness indicates a high altitude . The many white "dots" and "marks" are likely very high-altitude cloud edges of condensed convection. The auroras, shown in red in this image, extend to higher altitudes over both the planet's north and south poles. In contrast, dark bands north The equatorial region has no cloud caps. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Huasso (UPV), Imeka de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouche (Paris Observatory), Lee Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Fast and furious: Jupiter's secret jet stream accelerates up to 500 km/h

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The James Webb Space Telescope discovered a previously unseen jet stream in Jupiter's atmosphere. Similar phenomena have been observed in Saturn, and both may be related to temperature variations in the atmospheres of the gas giants
The Webb Space Telescope photographed the Ring Nebula. On the left using the NIRCam camera and on the right using MIRI. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow, N. Cox, R. Wesson

ווב לוקד את יופייה המפורט של ערפילית הנגעת

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The Ring Nebula, formed by a star shedding its outer layers, is a classic example of a planetary nebula and is also relatively close to us.
A new Web image showing a small area of ​​star formation in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud structure. Published on the occasion of the one year anniversary of the scientific activity of the James Webb Space Telescope. Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA

Webb marks one year of science with a close-up photo of the birth of sun-like stars

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From our own cosmic backyard in the Solar System to distant galaxies at the dawn of time, the NASA/European Space Agency/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has delivered on its promise to reveal the universe like never before
Infographic showing the scientific instruments of the Euclid Space Telescope. Photo: European Space Agency

The 'Dark Universe' Euclid Space Telescope Launches on a Mission to Reveal the Universe's Deepest Mysteries

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On July 1, 2023, the Euclid space telescope was successfully launched aboard Space-X's Falcon 9 rocket. It aims to explore the mysterious components of the universe, dark matter and dark energy
Hubble Space Telescope. Courtesy of NASA

Suggestion: move the grieving to a safe track and prolong his life

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Astroscale's collaboration with the Momentos company offers NASA a commercial solution that will allow the famous satellite - which recently celebrated its 33rd birthday - to be attached and towed to an orbit that will also be cleaned of space debris
A star exploding is a dramatic event, but the debris the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope provides one stunning example. It shows the remains of the supernova Cassiopeia A (Cas A), created by a stellar explosion 340 years ago. The image shows bright colors and complex structures. Cas A is the youngest known remnant of a massive exploding star in our galaxy, offering astronomers an opportunity to understand the star's death process. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (UGent), J. DePasquale (STScI)

Let's see how Cassiopeia is doing: Webb reveals new details on the Cassiopeia A supernova

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Webb recorded what remained after the death of a star only 11 thousand light years away from us. It is a relatively new supernova - only 350 years old
solar system trappist-1. Illustration: depositphotos.com

An innovative system estimates the habitability (ability to support life) of distant planets

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A computerized system classifies the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system. and determines which of them are capable of sustaining human settlement in the future
Two of the most distant galaxies ever seen have been revealed in Webb Space Telescope images of the outer regions of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 2744. The galaxies are not inside the cluster, but many billions of light-years behind it. The galaxy shown in the top image in the center was extracted from the image on the left. It existed only 450 million years after the big bang. The galaxy shown in the lower center image is drawn from the image on the right. It existed 350 million years after the big bang. Both galaxies appear to be very close in time to the Big Bang that occurred 13.8 billion years ago. These galaxies are tiny compared to our Milky Way. Webb Space Telescope photo, ESA/NASA

Webb discovered the oldest galaxies, their age and properties surprised astronomers

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One of these galaxies is observed as it appeared about 300 million years after the Big Bang and shines much brighter than expected. This figure now makes researchers estimate that the first galaxies were formed 100 million years after the Big Bang
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a rich and highly detailed view of the "Pillars of Creation." A region where new stars form within dense clouds of gas and dust previously captured in an iconic image by the Hubble Space Telescope in its early days. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

The Webb Space Telescope returns to Hubble's iconic "Pillars of Creation" and finds many more young stars

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a lush and highly detailed view of the "Pillars of Creation," a region where new stars form within dense clouds of gas and dust previously captured in an iconic image on
The overlapping galaxies -VV-191. Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, Rogier Windhorst (ASU), William Keel (University of Alabama), Stuart Wyithe (University of Melbourne), JWST PEARLS Team, Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

The Webb and Hubble space telescopes join forces in detecting interstellar dust - "We got more than we expected"

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A combination of photographs taken by the two large space telescopes in partially overlapping wavebands made it possible to identify new details about the role of interstellar dust in connections between neighboring galaxies
Composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green) and F150W2 (blue) – and alignment due to the rotation of the planet. Taken from the NIRCam instrument Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS crew; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

The Webb Space Telescope observed Jupiter as never before

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A large spotted pink wheel-like galaxy with a small inner ellipse, with a hazy blue in the middle to the right, with two smaller spiral galaxies of about the same size to the left on a black background. This image of the Wheel Galaxy and its companion galaxies is a composite from the Near Infrared Camera and Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument, which reveals details that are difficult to see from the separate images alone. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

The Webb Space Telescope Peeps Into Chaos - Captures Stellar Gymnastics in the Wheel Galaxy

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Webb's instruments reveal new details about star formation

The James Webb Telescope reveals in detail the steamy atmosphere of a distant planet

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The light spectrum - which contains information about the composition of a planetary atmosphere at a distance of 1,150 light years - reveals a clear signature of water * The strength of the signal that Webb detected hints at the significant role
The Stephan V group of galaxies (actually IV) - galaxies caught in a sort of cosmic dance, as imaged by a variety of infrared instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI

The James Webb Telescope sheds light on the evolution of galaxies and black holes in the Stefan quintet

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The proximity of four of the five Stefan galaxies to each other (the fifth only seems close) allows astronomers to ignite galactic mergers and intergalactic reactions. And also how the black holes affect the flow of matter
The Carina Nebula in a near-infrared photograph. One of the first images taken by the Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScIn

NASA's Webb Telescope reveals cosmic cliffs and star-forming regions in the Carina Nebula

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"Cosmic Cliffs" images show Webb's cameras' ability to peer through cosmic dust, shedding new light on how stars form * Webb's technology can help watch the process
The Southern Ring Nebula as photographed by two different instruments of the Webb Space Telescope - in the near-infrared on the left, and in the mid-infrared on the right. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScIn

The Webb Space Telescope photographed the Southern Ring Nebula: the last show of an exploding star

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed details of the Southern Ring Nebula that were previously hidden from astronomers. * For the first time, the second star in the binary system, one of whose members has exploded, can be clearly seen * First article
The galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 - the first scientific photograph by the James Webb Space Telescope. This cluster acts as a gravitational lens and increases the light of distant galaxies, including those from the early universe. Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

The first official photograph of the Webb Space Telescope: the highest resolution image of a deep space field

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An experimental photograph taken using the navigation camera of the James Webb Space Telescope and published prior to the announcement of its entry into operation and the publication of the initial images. Photo: NASA

Case in point: Webb photographed the deepest space yet * Live broadcast of the announcement of the first scientific images

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Tonight, July 12, starting at midnight, the American space agency NASA will reveal the first scientific photographs of this advanced space telescope, at a press conference chaired by US President Joe Biden, and NASA head Bill Nelson
The spaceship Gaia. Figure: European Space Agency

The Gaia mission: five insights astronomers can glean from its latest data

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NASA's Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman

The Webb Space Telescope begins aligning several instruments

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So far, the preparations for the operation of the James Webb Space Telescope are progressing as planned
Webb Space Telescope imaging. Photo: NASA

Webb Space Telescope: Seeing far. is very!

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These days, the Webb Space Telescope is expected to take the place of the Hubble Telescope after more than 30 years of operation. How far in space and time (!) can the web reach? What does the human eye see?
James Webb Space Telescope launch, Kourou - French Guiana. Screenshot from the NASA YouTube channel

James Webb Space Telescope - Hubble's replacement successfully launched - live broadcast

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Today, Saturday, 25.12.21 at 14:20 (Israel time), the James Webb Space Telescope will be launched, the successor to the Hubble Telescope and a new generation of space telescopes, designed to provide answers to the most intriguing questions in astronomy and astrophysics -
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest orbital telescope ever built. NASA/Desiree Stover, CC BY

The Webb Space Telescope will be launched on Saturday 25/12/21; will look deep into the ancient universe and explore planets

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Astronomer on the telescope team James Webb explains how a huge telescope is launched into space - and why, but first of all, that it will be successfully launched and deployed in the weeks after the launch
This is the previous image to which Godzilla's outline was added. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Godzilla Nebula: 'Monstrous' star-forming region discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

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Just like clouds on Earth, clouds of gas and dust in space can sometimes look like familiar objects, or even like characters from popular movies
Among other things, ARP-MADORE2115-273 was photographed, a rare observation of an interaction between a pair of galaxies and ARP-MADORE0002-503 - a large spiral galaxy with unusually extended spiral arms.

Stunning images from Hubble Reactivated: New Strange Galaxies

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The Hubble Space Telescope on the background of photos he took. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The computer of the space telescope 'Hubble' is still disabled - NASA is trying new strategies to solve the problem

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NASA is taking additional steps to investigate the malfunction that happened to the computer of the Hubble space telescope that began on June 13 and caused the suspension of scientific observations. At the same time as the investigation, NASA is looking at indirect ways to activate the backup hardware
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed on April 25, 1990 from the high-redundancy space shuttle Discovery. Hubble's location outside the distortions of the atmosphere gives it an unfettered view of stars, planets, and galaxies out to a distance of more than 13.4 billion light-years. Photo: NASA / Smithsonian / Lockheed Corporation

A computer glitch disabled the Hubble Space Telescope

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NASA is working to solve a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope's computer. The computer stopped working on Sunday, June 13, shortly after 16:00 p.m. (23:00 p.m. Israel time). This is already the second malfunction of the aging telescope this year

Look around - tidal forces have solved the mystery of dark matter in a distant galaxy

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In 2018, a galaxy with a low amount of dark matter was observed. The galaxy contradicted all the existing models but it turns out that the celebration came earlier than expected and two years later it was announced that the tidal forces shed the material
Comet NEOWISE as photographed from the Parker spacecraft, on July 5, 2020, when it reached the closest point in its orbit to the Sun. Photo: NASA

Starting this week, comet NEOWISE can be observed in the evening hours

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In our solar system, the ice giants Rahab (Neptune) and Oron (Uranus), their density is very less compared to that of the rocky planets Venus (Venus) and Earth. However, astrophysicists on NASA's TESS mission have now found an extrasolar planet, TOI-849b, that appears to be 40 times more massive than Earth, while having the same density as Earth. The figure depicts the planet UCF-1.01. As TOI-849b, this planet also orbits close to its sun and is a kind of “hot star.” Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

An unusually sized planet may be the remnant of the core of a gas giant

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Conceptual Image Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's James Webb Telescope will investigate the beginnings of our solar system

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The giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbor NGC 2020 together form part of a central star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Photo: NASA, ESA and the Space Telescope Science Center

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 30 years of operation with a stormy photo of the birth of stars

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