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First close-up view of "cotton candy" nebula captured by world's largest cosmic telescope
A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...
A Colossal Telescope in the Desert Just Captured Galaxies We’ve Never Seen Before
More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...
Could the first images from the Vera Rubin telescope change how we view space for good?
We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...
NASA Telescope Discovers Distant But 'Cool' Exoplanet Bigger Than Jupiter
Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...
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A Telescope Collaboration Between Astrophysicists Offers an Unprecedented Opportunity for Discovery
The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...
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Satellites trace a triangle above Gemini North Telescope | Space photo of the day for July 1, 2025
T he Gemini North Telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, studies the skies above Maunakea, a mountain ...
Rare snowfall in Atacama Desert forces the world's most powerful radio telescope into 'survival mode'
The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...
Tuesday Telescope: A howling wolf in the night sky
Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...
Webb telescope offers a look at one of the universe's most chaotic crashes
This separation was partly captured in earlier images by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, but the latest Webb data reveals ...