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Space.com

That’s the matter made up of atoms that comprise stars, planets, moons and our bodies. Dark matter does interact with gravity, however, and this influence can affect “ordinary matter” and light. Perfect for cosmic detective work.

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JADES-GS-z14-0 the earliest and most distant galaxy ever seen by humanity in a NIRCam image captured by the JWST (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), P. Cargile (CfA).).

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The JWST’s infrared vision captures a galaxy undergoing an explosion of star birth, brought about by the consumption of a smaller sibling. A gif showing three views of a galaxy. The final image in the gif combines. Isolated NIRCam and MIRI views of NGC …

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If you have a telescope, you might want to consider setting your alarm on Friday (May 31) for around 4 a.m. local daylight time (3 a.m. if you live in Hawaii, Arizona or Puerto Rico which do not observe daylight time). At that hour, if you step outside …

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“This was a key objective of the mission and opens the way for us to study the solar wind’s origin in unprecedented detail.” Comments (0). An illustration of the sun is in the background. In front of the sun,. An artist’s depiction of the joint …

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Spaceflight doesn’t typically come to mind when one thinks of North Carolina’s serene, verdant mountains. It’s true that, in the early 1960s, NASA built the (now-defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility among the rolling hills …

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Boeing’s new Starliner capsule has been cleared, again, for its first-ever astronaut launch. After a flight readiness review today (May 29), teams from Boeing, NASA and United Launch Alliance (ULA) polled “go” to proceed toward the Saturday (June 1) …

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Boeing’s Starliner capsule is back at the launch pad. Starliner and its rocket ride, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V, rolled out to the pad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (May 30) ahead of a planned Saturday (June 1) …

The New York Times

How did the ghoulish creatures known as anglerfish pull off the evolutionary feat that let them essentially take over the ocean’s sunless depths? It took peculiar sex — extremely peculiar sex. Scientists at Yale University have discovered that a burst …

Phys.Org

This composite film can twist light into a spiral, thanks to microscopic grooves that cause horizontally and vertically oscillating light waves to pass through the film out of phase. Unlike existing materials that can do this, the film maintains its …