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'Cool gemstones' and 'fiery grime': James Webb telescope finds clues to Earth's origins in dazzling new view of Butterfly Nebula

Apologies, birds of the cosmos — the James Webb Space Telescope has set aside ornithology and officially entered its ...
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A dead 'sun' forms building blocks of exoplanets in new JWST Butterfly Nebula image

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...
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UI researcher wins grant to develop new telescope to better navigate solar system

A University of Iowa researcher has won a NASA award to design and prototype a smaller, more efficient X-ray telescope to aid ...
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Search for Earth 2.0: CU Boulder lab helps plan NASA’s next big telescope

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope ...

NASA’s Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus

NEW YORK — The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new member of the lunar gang, announced ...
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A new type of telescope uses your smartphone to see the stars, and it just went on sale

Macworld So many fascinating pictures of space don’t actually come from NASA or even a satellite. They come from someone with a telescope and a camera. Astro photography is a cool hobby, but it can be ...
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Telescopes Reveal Surprising Chemistry of a Rare Interstellar Object Passing Through Our Solar System

Called 3I/ATLAS, the comet is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system ...