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APOD: 2026 September 13 – Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea
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Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor
How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA…
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NASA’s Chandra Spots Galactic Gem
Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw 096 system. This and several other images of both visually and…
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Roman telescope deploys solar array and communication systems, powers on Coronagraph Instrument
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched on Sunday, Aug. 30, atop a SpaceX… The post Roman telescope deploys solar array and…
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Dust and Water in Sagittarius A*
A brilliant concentration of stars takes center stage in this Aug. 11, 2026, image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb observed IRS 3, a…
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NASA’s Chandra Unveils Mysterious X-Ray Objects
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers…
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Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a photogenic nebula, N44, in the Large Magellanic Cloud in this Sept. 3, 2026, image. N44 is dominated by two…
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Igniting Roman’s Journey
Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest…
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NASA’s Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene
This Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista called N44.
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APOD: 2026 September 3 – The Eclipse and the Stork
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NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn’s south pole.
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Hubble tracks new decagon encircling Saturn’s south pole
Recent observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn’s south…
ESA1w ago1 min read
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Rising Over Louisiana
On Aug. 28, 2026 (the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones), the Moon passed into Earth’s shadow, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the…
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APOD: 2026 September 1 – A Plane Lunar Eclipse
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Roman Space Telescope Headed to Deep Space
The observatory will shed new light on the mystery of dark energy, observe distant exoplanets, and explore the structure of the universe.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, transits the Sun during launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center…
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APOD: 2026 August 31 – Launch of the Roman Space Telescope
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Lifts Off to Open New Insights Into the Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off this morning on a mission to find more planets around other stars in the universe and solve the…
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