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Triple Crater on Mars’ Ancient Highlands Could Help Prove Red Planet Was Habitable
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October 31, 2020
Triple Crater on Mars’ Ancient Highlands Could Help Prove Red Planet Was Habitable
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and the closest thing to Earth in our solar system, is a world…
A Spacecraft En-Route to “Touch the Sun” Snaps Closest Image of Sun to Date
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June 19, 2020
A Spacecraft En-Route to “Touch the Sun” Snaps Closest Image of Sun to Date
A spacecraft tasked with studying the Sun at never-before-seen distances has managed to shape a never-before-seen image of the Sun…
NASA’s SOHO Solar Observatory Snaps Image of Massive Comet SWAN
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May 14, 2020
NASA’s SOHO Solar Observatory Snaps Image of Massive Comet SWAN
In late May and early June, Earthlings will get a glimpse of Comet SWAN and will do so with the…
Distant Star Takes a Swing at a Black Hole And Survives to Tell the Story
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April 25, 2020
Distant Star Takes a Swing at a Black Hole And Survives to Tell the Story
Astronomers have revealed that a distant star has managed to survive a close encounter with a distant black hole. According…
Happy Birthday Hubble: Famous Space Telescope Celebrates 30 Years in Orbit
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April 24, 2020
Happy Birthday Hubble: Famous Space Telescope Celebrates 30 Years in Orbit
Happy birthday, Hubble. NASA’s (and ESA’s) Iconic Space Telescope named after astronomer Edwin Hubble is one of NASA’s Great Observatories. Although…
Cosmic Perfection: The Intricate, Nearly Perfect Symmetry of the NGC 2985 Galaxy
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July 20, 2019
Cosmic Perfection: The Intricate, Nearly Perfect Symmetry of the NGC 2985 Galaxy
The universe speaks. Maybe not literally, but through science it does. To understand the message, we use astronomy, our gateway…
Here Are 15 Breathtaking Images Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
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April 1, 2019
Here Are 15 Breathtaking Images Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope, or Hubble, is a telescope that orbits outside the atmosphere, in a circular orbit around the…
New Discovery Indicates Mankind Has Never Left Earth’s Atmosphere
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February 22, 2019
New Discovery Indicates Mankind Has Never Left Earth’s Atmosphere
It’s not that we didn’t fly and land on the moon, and ts not like we didn’t go to space.…
Hubble Captures 655-million-pixel Image of ‘Triangle’ Galaxy Showing 40 Billion Stars
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January 8, 2019
Hubble Captures 655-million-pixel Image of ‘Triangle’ Galaxy Showing 40 Billion Stars
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced yet another sensational image. Located over three million light-years away from the Milky Way,…