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NASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor’ Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star

In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf.
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SOFIA Returns to Flight Studying Galaxies

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NASA’s flying observatory, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, has returned to science...

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Wheelock Readies Astronauts for Moon Landing

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STS-120 Commander Pamela Melroy talked to media and guests on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...

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Monitoring the Arctic heatwave

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Inside NASA’s Pandemic Response Campaigns

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Patrick Degrosse, engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, shows the guts of the ventilator that a team...

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Hubble Maps Giant Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy

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This illustration depicts the gaseous halo of the Andromeda galaxy if it could be seen with...

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New $115 Million Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Quantum Technologies for Discovery Science

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The Quantum Systems Accelerator will optimize a wide range of advanced qubit technologies available on August 26...

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SITELLE Machine Learning

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Residual map of the recovered velocity parameter in the Southwest field of M33. The residual was calculated by taking the difference...

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