4K James Webb Space Telescope snaps 90,000 light-year wreath

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 7469, which is 90,000 light-years in diameter. The ...
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NASA Roman Space Telescope Survey to measure cosmic expansion across 11 billion light years

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a wide-area survey to study dark matter, dark energy, and the expansion of the universe across 11 billion light-years.

Gaze into the Milky Way’s black hole with NASA’s ‘back catalog’ of X-ray data

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million individual X-ray light detections collected through 2021. The latest examples from ...

Earth's 'cold' sibling? NASA's old telescope finds Earth's cold-twin planet 146 light-years away!

NASA scientists unearthed a new exoplanet, dubbed the 'cold Earth,' from retired Kepler telescope data. This Earth-sized world, HD 137010 b, orbits a distant star and, despite frigid temperatures, may ...
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Space telescopes at light speed

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...