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Artemis I moon mission launches · Webb telescope reveals the invisible universe · Observing astronomical wonders for the first time · Shifting an asteroid’s trajectory in space · NASA announces plans to study UFOs · Milestones on Mars.

The New York Times

Ghostly portraits of Neptune, Jupiter and other neighbors we thought we knew already. Nebulas and galaxies made visible by the penetrating infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, named for James Webb …

The Weather Channel

In many ways, a telescope functions similarly to our eyes. Regrettably, this means that if we’re facing strain in our star search, so are the world’s largest cosmic observatories — including future ones.

Phys.Org

Later, a much slower period of star formation in the core occurred, relying on recycled gas blown off of older stars in the outer region. These new stars, made of recycled material, have a higher level of metallicity, with heavier elements grafted into …

Phys.Org

A research team led by Prof. Li Di from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has revealed circular polarization in active repeating fast radio bursts based on precise observations of the Five-hundred-meter …

Phys.Org

There’s an old adage in the engineering field—what gets funded gets built. So it’s sure to be a happy time over at the Planetary Society, as NEO Surveyor, the project the organization has primarily supported over the past few years, has made it through …

Phys.Org

In a turnabout worthy of Pac-Man, DeLong and his colleagues have found that a species of Halteria—microscopic ciliates that populate freshwater worldwide—can eat huge numbers of infectious chloroviruses that share their aquatic habitat.

Livescience.com

Storms like these usually come from a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a burst of plasma with an embedded magnetic field that is belched out from a sun spot— but in this case researchers couldn’t find any evidence of a CME occurring.

Space.com

This patch of sky is also an emission nebula. The blue haze behind the scattered jewels of the open cluster signals to astronomers that star formation recently finished or is still underway.

USA TODAY

Dinosaur fossils are found throughout the world, but an “exceptionally rare” discovery sheds light on what type of animals a dinosaur fed on – mammals. In the early 2000s, the fossil of a Microraptor zhaoianus – a feathered dinosaur the size of a crow …