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The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has…
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This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows…
This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper…
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This image captures a high-altitude cloud formation surrounded by swirling patterns in the atmosphere of…
To celebrate NASA’s 60th anniversary this year, the agency partnered with the National Symphony Orchestra…
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Disc galaxies like our own Milky Way, characterized by a flattened disc of stars and…
Chandra data indicates that a young star, known as RW Aur A, has likely destroyed…
In 1610, Galileo redesigned the telescope and discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons. Nearly 400 years…
These six infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking…
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found—11 “normal” outer moons, and one that they’re…
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions provided today the first published report…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode…