‘We have a telescope!’ Rubin Observatory construction team installs its huge mirror
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope has now been equipped with all three of its mirrors, plus a camera ...
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SOHO Spots Bright Comet Debut in Evening Sky
The tail of comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS spanned the view of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on Oct. 10 ...
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ESA/NASA’s SOHO Spies Bright Comet Making Debut in Evening Sky
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured images of the second-brightest comet to ever pass through its ...
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Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts
The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 ...
Rare comet visible in the night sky won’t return for 80,000 years
A rare comet is expected to be visible to the naked eye across the Northern Hemisphere for several weeks in October.
Webb telescope finds first clear evidence of a 'steam world'
Well, they've done it. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership of NASA and its European and Canadian ...
Solar Storm Buffets Earth and Is Likely to Generate Light Show
An explosion of particles arrived at Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible northern lights in much of the country ...
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS photobombs SOHO spacecraft during powerful solar flare (video)
This week, a thick, bright line entered from the right side of SOHO's imagery and paraded across the field of view, moving ...
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Lagrange Points And Why You Want To Get Stuck At Them
Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty space that’s nevertheless full of very real forces, all of which must be taken into account lest one’s ...
This Long-Tailed Comet Is Poised to Put On a Good Show on Oct. 11: How to See It
The emergence of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS into the evening sky presents a great opportunity for casual viewers and astronomy ...
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The dazzling Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is emerging in the night sky: How to see it
Scientists are excited to begin capturing Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as the object is expected to soon be very bright in the ...
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James Webb Space Telescope studies dusty 'pancakes' feeding baby stars and birthing planets
How a star accretes mass has a big influence on how the surrounding disk evolves over time, including the way planets form later on.' ...