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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, ...
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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...