Opinion: Eric Schmidt’s space telescope is another boost to private cosmic science

The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.
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James Webb Space Telescope sees comet-seeding crystals flowing far from newborn star (photo)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve.
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NASA launches Pandora telescope, taking JWST's search for habitable worlds to a new level

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, Pandora.

The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope on the ground.

5 Interesting Facts About NASA Hubble Space Telescope

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope, which is hundreds of miles above the Earth, has been taking incredible pictures that help with future studies and research. But to learn more about the telescope. Here are five interesting facts about the technology,
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Telescope reveals a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile late last month are the most detailed yet of the ...

James Webb telescope captures giant ‘cosmic eye’ blowing its final breath 650 light-years away

This is not a close-up of a sparkling soda from a movie theater promotion. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of the Helix Nebula, showing comet-like pillars being pushed by gas from a dying star.

‘I work on comet 3I/ATLAS’: French astronomer’s ‘commute’ 230 million miles away with a medium-sized telescope

Working on comet 3I/ATLAS: A French astronomer has gone viral after saying she “works on comet 3I/ATLAS,” sparking curiosity and confusion online. The claim refers not to a space mission but to detailed observations made from Earth using a medium-sized telescope to study the rare interstellar comet now 230 million miles away.
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NASA finds starless, dark-matter astronomical object using Hubble Space Telescope — first confirmed detection of its kind in universe

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of early galaxy formation, NASA said. This ...
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NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of people are outside anyway, talking and watching as ...