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October’s Night Sky Notes: Let’s Go, LIGO!

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert ...
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Helio Highlights: October 2025

On a clear night, you might see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years away from us. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year: ...
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Discovery Alert: ‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!

The (Proto) Planet: WISPIT 2b The Discovery: Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have ...
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From City Lights to Moonlight: NASA Training Shows How Urban Parks Can Connect Communities with Space Science

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from ...
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NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful ...
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Over Soroya Ridge & Onward!

Written by Eleanor Moreland, Ph.D. Student Collaborator at Rice University Perseverance has continued exploring beyond the rim of Jezero crater, spending time last week at Parnasset conducting a ...
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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Observes Interstellar Comet

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been ...
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NASA’s New SPHEREx Mission Observes Interstellar Comet

Comet 3I/ATLAS Cataloguing the journey of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system. Because the object comes from outside our solar system, it is just passing through – so we use all the tools at our ...
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NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Spot Rare Type of Black Hole Eating a Star

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example ...
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NASA’s Hubble and Webb Telescopes Reveal Two Faces of a Star Cluster Duo

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. A riotous expanse of gas, dust, and stars stake out the dazzling territory of a duo of star clusters in this combined ...
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What Is the Solar Wind?

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one ...
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How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe.