NASA delays JWST launch by seven months
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How to catch a glimpse of the comet NEOWISE dazzling the skies right now
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Kinman Dwarf has seemingly vanished from space with no explanation
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NASA expects to cover JWST launch slip with budget reserves
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Watch a ten-year time lapse of Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
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Scientists just found the biggest neutron star (or smallest black hole) yet in a strange cosmic collision
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Italian amateur astronomer captures amazing photo of Mercury’s comet-like sodium tail
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My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy
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NASA confirms JWST will miss March 2021 launch date
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Can we save the night sky from satellite streaks? Legal comment launches as constellation companies scramble to satisfy astronomers' concerns
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Freaky ‘active’ object in Jupiter’s orbit is first of its kind seen by astronomers
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NASA is naming its newest space telescope for pioneering astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, marking the first time in the agency’s history that one of its major programs has been named for a woman
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Mystery of lava-like flows on Mars solved by scientists: mud volcanoes
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Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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New type-II supernova 2020jfo detected in Messier 61 galaxy
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ESO instrument finds black hole 1000 lightyears from Earth
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Research reveals possible active tectonic system on the moon
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SpaceX to test Starlink “sun visor” to reduce brightness
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched thirty years ago—then the problems began
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Limited work continues on JWST
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Direct multipixel imaging and spectroscopy of an exoplanet with a Solar Gravitational Lens Mission
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WFIRST, proposed for cancellation, is approved for development
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The Pope's Astronomer, Telescopes, & Space Rocks
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them...
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them individually:
The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols
The Pope's Telescopes - Deep Sky Videos
The Pope's Space Rocks - Objectivity #2216 votes -
New exoplanet search strategy claims first discovery
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Details pour in from New Horizons’ visit to Arrokoth, an object in the Kuiper Belt
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Highlights from ten years of observations of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
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NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
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Inside SpinLaunch, the space industry’s best kept secret
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Amateur astronomers have helped discover a new kind of northern lights, known as dunes
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First images from the National Science Foundation's Inouye Solar Telescope show the surface of the sun at the highest resolution ever
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James Webb Space Telescope: Technical challenges have caused schedule strain and may increase costs
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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
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Impacts Project: Low-resolution PDF
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Hubble surveys huge spiral galaxy UGC 2885, 2.5 times wider than Milky Way and containing ten times as many stars
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New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error
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Impacts: Climate change awareness project
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a new type of magnetic explosion on the Sun
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Norway gives Sámi names to distant star and planet as part of the 100th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union
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Why is the James-Webb space telescope taking so long?
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SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy
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2019 Hubble Space Telescope Advent calendar
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That Starlink problem astronomers were worried about is totally happening
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Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
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Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering six million km/h, that was ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago
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Neutron stars – The most extreme things that are not black holes
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Voyager 2 illuminates the boundary of interstellar space
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How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
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Hubble observes comet 2I/Borisov, the first confirmed interstellar comet
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What astronomers can learn from hot Jupiters, the scorching giant planets of the galaxy
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Is there a more rational way to scan the heavens for alien life?
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