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Bright clouds reveal Neptune’s dark vortices
Neptune’s dark vortices are high-pressure systems that are difficult to observe directly. Hubble detects them especially well at blue wavelengths...
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Roman is on its way to L2: how NASA’s telescope launched
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope began a roughly three-month journey to the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system. NASA detailed the...
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NASA advances test telescope for LISA, the future space-based gravitational-wave observatory
On October 8, 2026, NASA announced a new step in LISA’s development: L3Harris Technologies will design, assemble and integrate a telescope Engine...
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Curiosity tested TMAH on Mars: molecules released and how they were identified
The Curiosity rover analyzed a roughly 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich sandstone sample from Gale crater with its SAM instrument. In the first in...
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From Core Collapse to Shock Wave: How a Supernova Remnant Is Born
When a massive star runs out of fuel in its core, the outward pressure generated by fusion decreases, and gravity can cause the core to collapse....
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Naked eye, binoculars or telescope: how to observe the sky
You do not need special equipment to start observing the sky. NASA explains what can be seen with the naked eye, what binoculars can do, and what...
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GW170817: when gravitational waves arrived with a gamma-ray flash
GW170817 was associated with the burst GRB 170817A and an optical source in the galaxy NGC 4993. INTEGRAL helped refine the location, while the c...
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Gaia archive describes a 3D quasar map reaching into the distant universe
The Gaia science community’s archive describes a cosmic three-dimensional map of about 1.3 million quasars. The account concerns the distant univ...
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GLIMPSE-17775: Webb gathers evidence of a black hole shrouded in dense gas
On June 10, 2026, NASA presented an analysis of GLIMPSE-17775, a “little red dot” whose light was magnified by the galaxy cluster Abell S1063. Th...
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LID-568: a black hole apparently feeding at more than 40 times the Eddington limit
For LID-568, a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that existed about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, the team estimates a fe...
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Dark matter appears cold: what galaxy formation reveals—and what we still do not know about its particles
Cosmological simulations described by NASA suggest that dark matter moves slowly: cold models reproduce observed cosmic structures better than wa...
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How to watch a meteor shower: scan the whole sky, not just the radiant
Meteor showers seem to originate from a particular region of the sky, but their meteors can cross any area. NASA guides offer advice on where to...
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Mars put the Psyche mission to the test on its way to a metal-rich asteroid
Psyche used Mars’s gravity to gain speed and adjust its trajectory toward the asteroid it will study in 2029. The encounter also let its instrume...
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A guide to observing exoplanets: what to explore and how to take part
A practical guide to finding your way around NASA’s exoplanet resources: how to use the catalog, what light observations can reveal and how to co...
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NEO Surveyor: how it will search for asteroids in infrared and process its data
NEO Surveyor is a NASA mission designed to search for near-Earth asteroids and comets by detecting their infrared emissions, a signal that can re...
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Artemis II: NASA’s crewed flight around the Moon
Artemis II was Orion’s first crewed flight. In April 2026, four astronauts traveled around the Moon, observed its surface and, according to NASA,...
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Planet Nine: What Kuiper Belt Orbits Reveal and What the Hypothesis Proposes
The apparent clustering of some orbits of icy Kuiper Belt objects led Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown to propose the possible existence of a di...
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Umbra, penumbra and apparent size: why solar eclipses look different
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow on our planet. But the experience changes depending on w...