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Bookmark or Share- NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen UniverseJuly 12, 2022. One of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, this landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby young star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Full Image Details.
- Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far, far away... - NASA Jet Propulsion ...The star, HIP 11915, is about the same age and composition as our sun, raising the possibility that its entire planetary system might be similar to ours. This not-so-hot Jupiter, about 186 light-years away from Earth, was detected using the 11.8-foot (3.6-meter) telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile.
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)About the mission. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer was an orbiting space telescope designed to observe the universe in ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation in the universe. In addition to paving the way for future ultraviolet missions, the space telescope allowed astronomers to uncover mysteries about the early ...
- NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per HourMost familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.
- ‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy PairOct. 31, 2024. The gruesome palette of these galaxies is owed to a mix of mid-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and visible and ultraviolet light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. IC 2163, left, passed behind NGC 2207, the larger spiral galaxy at right, millions of years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
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