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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
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NASA's SPHEREx telescope 'opens its eyes on the universe', taking stunning debut image of 100,000 galaxies and stars
SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'
This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...
NASA's Webb telescope captures photos of the asteroid that won't hit Earth in 2032
Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.
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Changing seasons on Uranus tracked across 20 years by Hubble Space Telescope
An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...
Webb telescope's new photo isn't just rare. It's psychedelic.
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope releases its first images on mission to map millions of galaxies
SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...
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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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This Telescope Is So Badass It Could Answer Questions We Don't Know To Ask
The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...
Tuesday Telescope: A close-up of the magical camera at the end of a robotic arm
We're back! A long-time reader and subscriber recently mentioned in the Ars Forums that they "kind of" missed the Daily Telescope posts that I used to write in 2023 and 2024. Although I would have ...
NASA's Webb Telescope Reveals ‘Cosmic Tornado’ in Action
A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...
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Penn collaboration with Atacama Cosmology Telescope releases images of universe's early years
The images received from this telescope are known as the cosmic microwave background, and they provide an exceptionally clear ...