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NASA joins telescope, instruments to Roman spacecraft

Technicians have successfully integrated NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's payload—the telescope, instrument carrier, and two instruments—to the spacecraft that will deliver the observatory to its place in space ...

Gamma-ray outburst detected from the radio source 3C 216

Using NASA's Fermi space telescope, Italian astronomers have observed a radio source known as 3C 216. As a result, they detected increased gamma-ray activity from this source, including a strong outburst. The finding is reported ...

Will Comet G3 ATLAS perform at perihelion?

What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to reach naked eye visibility in 2025: Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS. This comet reaches perihelion at 0.094 ...

Physicists explain a stellar stream's distinctive features

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky Way, known for its long, thin structure, and unusual ...

Fast radio burst confirmed to originate from neutron star

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but often last for only a fraction of a second. For years, all we could do was observe them by random ...

Video: See and hear three years of solar fireworks

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the number of flares and their intensity ...

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Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly "stare" of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness.

New ESO image captures a dark wolf in the sky

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colorful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark ...

Astrophysics study explores turbulence in molecular clouds

On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy flight. Turbulence on a much larger scale is important to how stars form in giant molecular clouds that ...

NASA to launch solar coronagraph to Space Station

NASA's Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details about the solar wind including its origin and its evolution.