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Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster

October 28, 2024

Lee Mohon

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new planets. A team of astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in…
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Astronomers Spot Cataclysmic Collision of Giant Asteroids in Nearby Star System

June 10, 2024

Passant Rabie

Nearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star located just 63 light-years away from Earth. In recent observations from the Webb Space Telescope, however, the dust cloud had mysteriously vanished. N…
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Spitzer Space Telescope Captures Galactic Snack

May 9, 2024

Monika Luabeya

This image, released on May 9, 2024, from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows streams of dust flowing toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy. These dust streams can help explain how black holes billions of times the mass of our Sun can satiate their big appetites but remain “quiet”…
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NASA Images Help Explain Eating Habits of Massive Black Hole

May 9, 2024

Anthony Greicius

Data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope has given scientists new insights into why some supermassive black holes shine differently than others. In images from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, streams of dust thousands of light-years long flow toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy. It turns out these streams…
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NASA Budget Threatens Fate of Veteran X-Ray Telescope, Alarming Astronomers

March 21, 2024

Passant Rabie

It might be the end of the road for two of NASA’s most iconic telescopes as the space agency looks to reduce the funding for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, much to the dismay of scientists who rely heavily on the cosmic o…
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NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

March 12, 2024

Ashley Balzer

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any other survey, mapping more of our galaxy’s stars than all previous observations combined. “There’s a really broad range of science we can explore with…
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NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double Bang

January 3, 2024

Lee Mohon

A colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two, exploded stars. This supernova remnant is known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B for short) and is part of a larger region of space where stars have been continuously forming for the past 8 to…
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Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb

December 22, 2023

Naomi Hartono

The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. On Dec. 25, NASA will celebrate the two-year launch anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope – the largest and most powerful space observatory in history. The clarity…
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Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars

November 30, 2023

Lee Mohon

A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions. A pulsar is the spinning dense core that remains after a massive star collapses into itself to form a neutron star. Rapidly rotating…
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Category: Spitzer Space Telescope

Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster

Astronomers Spot Cataclysmic Collision of Giant Asteroids in Nearby Star System

Spitzer Space Telescope Captures Galactic Snack

NASA Images Help Explain Eating Habits of Massive Black Hole

NASA Budget Threatens Fate of Veteran X-Ray Telescope, Alarming Astronomers

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double Bang

Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb

Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars

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