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NASA’s exoplanet hunting satellite is back up and running

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has resumed operations following a technical issue that caused it to be put into safe mode earlier this week.
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The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.

NASA’s four-person Crew-4 mission splashes down safely off Florida coast

The four astronauts of NASA's Crew-4 mission have returned from the International Space Station and splashed down safely off the coast of Florida.
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Save $1,100 on Samsung’s smart refrigerator in its rival Amazon sale

This smart refrigerator usually costs $4,224, but right now, you can save a massive $1,125 with the price reduced to $3,099.
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These Laptops are Under $500 in the October Prime Day Sales

Scoop up a bargain on a new laptop with these Prime Day laptop deals that are available now for under $500.
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The two interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Two interacting galaxies are warped by gravitational forces in Hubble image

Hubble snaps a pair of interacting galaxies, close enough to be distorted by tremendous gravitational forces.
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Saturn's geologically active moon, Enceladus.

How we could search for life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

When it comes to searching for places beyond Earth where life could thrive in our solar system, some of the most intriguing targets aren't planets but moons.
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X-rays from Chandra have been combined with infrared data from early publicly-released James Webb Space Telescope images.

X-ray data from Chandra gives a new view of Webb’s first images

The Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new spin on the famous first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Artist's illustration of CAPSTONE approaching the moon.

Engineers get NASA’s CAPSTONE lunar satellite spin back under control

For the past month, NASA's CAPSTONE satellite has been spinning through space. But now, engineers have managed to get its attitude back under control.
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How the James Webb Space Telescope creates images of ‘invisible’ interstellar objects

NASA doesn't just point a telescope at space and snap a photo. JWST's data needs to be translated from infrared to visible light — then it becomes an image.
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The InSight Mars lander's final selfie.

Dust storm nearly finishes off Mars lander InSight

NASA's InSight mission is dying a slow death. A recent dust storm hasn't helped.
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Groundbreaking low-cost Indian Mars mission comes to an end

Nearly a decade after its launch, India's Mars Orbiter Mission has run out of fuel and will cease operations.
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Telescope team-up sees Hubble and Webb working together

Scientists have combined data from two powerful telescopes to illuminate the dust in a distant galaxy pair.
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How to watch SpaceX’s delayed double satellite launch tonight

SpaceX had been set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday, but this plan was derailed by a helium leak. Now, the launch will instead go ahead tonight.
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Surface features of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa are revealed in an image obtained by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) during the spacecraft’s Sept. 29, 2022, flyby.

See Jupiter’s icy moon Europa up close and personal in Juno image

The Juno spacecraft performed a close flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa last month, and now NASA has released a high resolution image of its icy surface.
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission is targeting launch Wednesday, Oct. 5, to the International Space Station from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, to the orbital complex for a science expedition mission.

How to watch SpaceX and NASA launch Crew-5 mission today

This week will see four astronauts blast off in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, heading to the International Space Station (ISS). Here's how to watch.
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Orionid meteors appear every year when Earth travels through an area of space littered with debris from Halley’s Comet.

How to watch the Orionid meteor shower this month

Through October you'll have the chance to catch one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, the Orionid meteor shower.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 imaged this lonely spiral galaxy called UGC 9391. The galaxy resides 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco near the north celestial pole. Its star-studded spiral arms stand in splendid isolation against a backdrop of distant galaxies, which are only visible as indistinct swirls or smudges thanks to their vast distances from Earth.

This galaxy helps astronomers measure the size of the universe

Trying to measure the size of the universe is no easy task, but this galaxy imaged by Hubble can help.
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This image of the spiral galaxy IC 5332, taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with its MIRI instrument, has been scaled and cropped to match the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the same galaxy.

One galaxy, two views: Webb and Hubble take on the same target

The Hubble and James Webb telescopes are both powerful tools for peering out into the cosmos, but the way they view the universe is quite different.
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. This image was taken on April 5, the 45th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Some weird debris just fell off the Mars helicopter Ingenuity

Mars helicopter Ingenuity recently completed its 33rd flight, but it had some strange debris along for part of the ride.
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This artist’s impression shows a field of Population III stars as they would have appeared a mere 100 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers may have discovered the first signs of their ancient chemical remains in the clouds surrounding one of the most distant quasars ever detected.

Hunting for evidence of the first stars that ever existed

Astronomers might have found evidence of the very first stars which existed in the universe.
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NASA’s Space Launch System rocket undamaged by hurricane, will launch next month

With hurricane Ian having moved past Florida, NASA has confirmed that its SLS rocket was not damaged and has set a new date for the next launch attempt.
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Researchers have used spectroscopic observations of ultraviolet light from quasars to detect and map the Magellanic Corona, a diffuse halo of hot, supercharged gas surrounding the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. Shown in purple, the corona stretches more than 100,000 light-years from the main mass of stars, gas, and dust that make up the Magellanic Clouds, intermingling with the hotter and more extensive corona that surrounds the Milky Way.

Hubble spots cocoon of gas protecting galaxy for the first time

Research using the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a protective shield which has kept two of our neighboring galaxies safe for billions of years.
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NASA's SOFIA observatory in the air.

NASA’s observatory in an airplane, SOFIA, takes its last flight

NASA's observatory on an airplane, SOFIA, has taken its last flight and will be retiring from service.
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The James Webb Space Telescope.

One of James Webb’s 17 instrument modes isn’t working

NASA announced that one of Webb's seventeen observing modes is not functioning due to a hardware issue which is currently under review.
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A shroud of thick gas and dust surrounds a bright young star in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 inspected a young stellar object, over 9,000 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, to help astronomers understand the earliest stages in the lives of massive stars. This object – which is known to astronomers as IRAS 05506+2414 – may be an example of an explosive event caused by the disruption of a massive young star system.

Bright young star shoots out strange fan of material in Hubble image

Massive stars can go through epic changes when they are in their younger years, as this week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows.
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This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It’s the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the “event horizon”, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape.

There’s a bubble of hot gas zipping around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

Scientists have discovered a bubble of hot gas whipping around our galaxy's supermassive black hole at tremendous speed.
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NASA’s Artemis I launch called off due to tropical storm

NASA is cancelling the third attempt at launching its Space Launch System rocket due to tropical storm Ian which threatens the Florida coast.
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This image of Jupiter’s moon Europa was taken by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021, from a distance of about 51,000 miles (82,000 kilometers).

Juno spacecraft to go screaming by Jupiter’s moon Europa in close approach

NASA's Juno spacecraft will get to see Jupiter's moon Europa in great detail as it is set to perform a close flyby of the icy moon this week.
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Virtual view from top of the western delta into the crater.

Delightful interactive map of Mars lets you take a wander with Perseverance rover

If you've ever wanted to take a trip to Mars and go on a hike with the Perseverance rover, now is your chance.
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Webb’s first images of Mars, captured by its NIRCam instrument Sept. 5, 2022 [Guaranteed Time Observation Program 1415]. Left: Reference map of the observed hemisphere of Mars from NASA and the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Top right: NIRCam image showing 2.1-micron (F212 filter) reflected sunlight, revealing surface features such as craters and dust layers. Bottom right: Simultaneous NIRCam image showing ~4.3-micron (F430M filter) emitted light that reveals temperature differences with latitude and time of day, as well as darkening of the Hellas Basin caused by atmospheric effects. The bright yellow area is just at the saturation limit of the detector.

James Webb goes in deep on Mars temperature and atmosphere

Webb will perform a major study of Jupiter and has already imaged Neptune. Now, Webb has been used to get a fascinating look at our planetary neighbor, Mars.
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How to watch SpaceX launch 52 Starlink satellites tonight

Tonight will see another SpaceX launch, with the company launching a batch of 52 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. Here's how to watch.
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A cropped composite of a DRACO image centered on Jupiter taken during one of SMART Nav’s tests. DART was approximately 16 million miles (26 million km) from Earth when the image was taken, with Jupiter approximately 435 million miles (700 million km) away from the spacecraft.

Asteroid-bound DART spacecraft snaps Jupiter and moon Europa

With just a few days to go before NASA deliberately crashes it into an asteroid, the DART spacecraft has snapped an image of Jupiter and its moon Europa.
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The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Glittering, blue regions of bright young stars dot the dusty spiral arms winding around the galaxy’s glowing center.

Hubble images a gorgeous spiral galaxy with a brightly glowing heart

This Hubble image shows the galaxy NGC 1961, its spiral arms reaching out into the darkness and swirling around its bright and busy center.
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This photo of Jupiter, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope on June 27, 2019, features the Giant Red Spot, a storm the size of Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.

This month, get a great view of Jupiter as it comes its closest in 70 years

Jupiter's opposition happens every 13 months, but this opposition is a special one as the planet will make its closest approach to Earth in 70 years.
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