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Raging winds and hidden metals: The wild weather of a distant exoplanet
Scientists mapped exoplanet WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing extreme winds and hidden metals. Iron and titanium appear ...
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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected
The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...
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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
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Breakthrough in Astronomy: First Flat Telescope Lens Captures Color and Distant Starlight
For centuries, telescopes have relied oncurved glass lenses to bend light and bring the cosmos into focus. While effective, ...
NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang
Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic ‘inflation’
The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists ...
33,000 km/h Winds? Scientists Just Found the Fastest Jetstream on an Alien World
A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...
A fancy new telescope is heading to space: Here’s what SPHEREx will do
The findings it beams back to Earth during its two-year mission could help astronomers solve age-old mysteries, including how ...