Category: 2. Space
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NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk
After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed up with an observation in the near-infrared. In the newest image, the Sombrero galaxy’s…
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c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations
Two NASA-developed technologies are key components of a new high-resolution sensor for observing wildfires: High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector (HOT-BIRD), developed with support from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office…
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Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located about 30 million light-years away. Hubble released an earlier image of NGC 1385, but the two images…
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Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellite
WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron successfully placed a BlackSky high-resolution imaging satellite into orbit on a June 2 launch.
The Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 7:57 p.m. Eastern….
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Cosmic Himalayas quasar cluster defies explanation
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. “Cosmic Himalayas quasar cluster defies explanation.” Nanowerk, 3 June 2025, https://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=66960.php.
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. (2025, June 3)….
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Plastic burning particulate matter as a source of environmentally persistent free radicals and reactive oxygen and chlorine species
Cottom, J. W., Cook, E. & Velis, C. A. A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pollution. Nature 633, 101–108 (2024).
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A temperate 10-Earth-mass exoplanet around the Sun-like star Kepler-725
Bryson, S. et al. The occurrence of rocky habitable-zone planets around solar-like stars from Kepler data. Astron. J. 161, 36 (2021).
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