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Jul 11

Here’s the deepest, clearest infrared image of the universe ever produced

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

Dubbed “Webb’s First Deep Field,” the image shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 in unprecedentedly clear detail.

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Jul 11

WATCH: Stunning new images from James Webb Space Telescope offer fuller picture of our universe

By Marcia Rieke, The Conversation

NASA released some of the very first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, marking the beginning of the next era in astronomy as the largest space telescope ever built offers scientific data that will help answer questions about…

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Jul 11

WATCH: Biden offers first peek of historic image from James Webb Space Telescope

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Our view of the universe just expanded. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of…

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May 11

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

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Feb 15

How Galileo’s groundbreaking works got banned

By Dr. Howard Markel

Born on this day 458 years ago, Galileo refused to be silent about how the solar system worked.

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Feb 11

NASA’s new space telescope sees 1st starlight, takes selfie

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Officials for the James Webb Space Telescope said Friday that all 18 segments of the primary mirror seem to be working properly 1 1/2 months into the mission.

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Jan 24

New James Webb Space Telescope reaches final stop 1 million miles away from Earth

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fired its rocket thrusters Monday, one month after launching on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe.

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Dec 16

What too much artificial light steals from our night skies

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

Advocates emphasize that, compared to many other types of pollution plaguing our planet, addressing excessive lighting is relatively straightforward.

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Jun 14

NASA is returning to Venus to learn how it became a hot poisonous wasteland

By Paul K. Byrne, The Conversation

Two new NASA missions – VERITAS and DAVINCI+ – are headed to Venus. The missions will use radar and a probe to learn about Earth's hard-to-study and potentially prophetic neighbor.

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May 25

WATCH: How to see the red blood supermoon lunar eclipse coming early Wednesday

By Shannon Schmoll, The Conversation

Also known as the super flower blood moon (so named because May's full moon is sometimes called the flower moon), the phenomenon combined several lunar milestones that resulted in a full moon that looks bigger than usual, turns red, and…

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