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The telescope uses a camera with filters that can make a color map out of infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye.
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In April, the International Dark Sky Association certified the Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve. The reserve allows for astronomical research and minimizes the impact of light pollution on humans and ecology.
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NASA's $10 billion new telescope showed the world something remarkable today: an image of some of the first galaxies to form in the universe.
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June's full moon gets its nickname from the strawberry harvesting season in the Northeastern U.S. It also happens to be at its closest distance to Earth in its orbit, which makes it a supermoon.
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That's up from 143 incidents in a report issued in 2021. Officials partly credited reducing stigma around the issue for the new reports, many of which are older and went unmentioned at the time.
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For the first time, we’re able to see what a black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy looks like, thanks in part to Alex Tetarenko, an astrophysics researcher with Texas Tech University who contributed to the discovery.
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South America and much of the continental United States had the best view of Sunday night's lunar eclipse, which lasted nearly five hours.
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NASA should send probes to the ice giant planet of Uranus and to a moon of Saturn where conditions could be right for life. Those are some of the recommendations in a new report to the space agency.
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These so-called exoplanets include rocky worlds similar in size to Earth, gas giants larger than Jupiter and even"'mini-Neptunes."
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The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from French Guinea at 7:20 a.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 25. The NASA mission was decades in the making and should reveal the earliest galaxies in the universe.