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Webb Telescope Will Inspect Atmospheres of Gas Giant Exoplanets
In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Its main goal is to locate Earth-sized planets and larger “super-Earths” orbiting nearby stars...
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Scientists Use ‘Light-Fingerprints’ to Reveal Mysteries of the Cosmos
Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using “light-fingerprints” instead of skin grooves to uncover the mysteries...
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Engineers Begin Excavation on Giant Magellan Telescope Site
GMTO Corporation (GMTO) today announced the start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive concrete pier and the foundations for the telescope’s...
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Fermi Energizes the Sky With Gamma-Ray Constellations
Long ago, sky watchers linked the brightest stars into patterns reflecting animals, heroes, monsters and even scientific instruments into what is now an official collection...
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NASA’s Fermi Mission Shows How Luck Favors the Prepared
In 2017, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs occurring just five weeks apart. But what might seem like...
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Fermi Traces the History of Starlight Across the Cosmos
Scientists using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have measured all the starlight produced over 90 percent of the universe’s history. The analysis, which...
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Fermi Discovers “Cannonball” Pulsar Speeding Through Space at Nearly 2.5...
Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour — so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and...
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Groundbreaking Result From Event Horizon Telescope Project
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will hold a press conference to announce a groundbreaking result. What: Press conference on groundbreaking result...
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Chandra Black Hole Close-Up Image Makes History
A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio...
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First Image of a Black Hole Captured by Astronomers
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) operates a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes that are linked together. The Black Hole Cam (BHC) Team, led...
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Astronomers Reveal First Direct Visual Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of...
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NASA Fermi Images: Moon Glows Brighter Than Sun
If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That’s how NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope...
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Merging Galaxies Spotted by Hubble Space Telescope
Over thirty years ago, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many extremely luminous galaxies, some more than a thousand times brighter than...
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Event Horizon Telescope Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Nearly 30 MIT-affiliated researchers will share in the prize, while David Jay Julius ’77 wins Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; assistant professor of physics Max...
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NASA Confirms Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor
A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The object –...
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Powerful Pulsating Gamma Rays Emitted From Neutron Star Rotating an...
Second fastest spinning radio pulsar known is a gamma-ray pulsar, too. Multi-messenger observations look closely at the system and raise new questions. An international research...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Penetrate Space Dust to Reveal Milky Way’s Center
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions...
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NASA’s New Star-Watching Technology Has Thousands of Tiny Shutters
NASA scientists plan to demonstrate a revolutionary technology for studying hundreds of stars and galaxies at the same time — a new capability originally created...
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Alternative Earths – Secrets of Sustaining Life
Three billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. The sun that shone on its oceans and continents was not as bright as it...
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New Era in Gamma-Ray Science with NASA Fermi, Swift Missions
A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has produced the highest-energy light yet seen from...
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Caught in Afterglow of a Dying Star: Most Powerful Light in the Universe
First Detection of Inverse Compton Emission From Dying Gamma-Ray Burst A dying star emits intense flashes of light called a gamma-ray burst. Most days, the...
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New Method of Finding Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets With Webb Space Telescope
When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021, one of its most anticipated contributions to astronomy will be the study of exoplanets—planets orbiting distant...
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Comparing the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes: From Ultraviolet to...
This Hubblecast explores how the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s observations differ across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and how these observations will be complemented...
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The Tera From Outer Space
Astronomers discover the most energetic gamma-ray burst ever witnessed. Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic phenomenon known to humankind. Although short-lived, they outshine stars and...
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