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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Finds Source of Magellanic Stream
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the…
NASA’s Hubble Finds Telltale Fireball After Gamma Ray Burst
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently provided the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma ray bursts are…
NASA’s WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets
The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune,…
NASA’s SOFIA Investigates the Southern Sky from New Zealand
NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory will be based in New Zealand for the next two weeks, taking…
NASA’s Hubble Shows Link between Stars’ Ages and Their Orbits
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have determined the orbital motion of two distinct populations of…
NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the…
NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft
NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which…
NASA’s Webb Telescope’s Last Backbone Component Completed
Assembly of the backbone of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the primary mirror backplane support structure,…
NASA’S Chandra Turns up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door
Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes…