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NASA’s two most iconic space telescopes, the Hubble and James Webb, are facing the biggest operating cuts in their history.
Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...
Scientists have proposed Earth is in the middle of a huge void in space, potentially resolving the cosmic mystery known as ...
For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...
Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...
Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...
The JWST could see a 25-35% reduction in operations, and some Hubble instruments may have to fend for themselves.
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Postman, P. Kelly Hubble’s latest portrait zooms into Abell 209, a colossal galaxy cluster 2.8 ...
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.