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| | Never before seen details revealed of galaxies, stars and planets in images taken by NASA's newest telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA's largest and most powerful space science telescope.
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| | The Herschel Space Observatory is the largest infrared space observatory launched to date. Equipped with a 3.5 metre diameter reflecting telescope and instruments cooled to close to absolute zero, Herschel observes at wavelengths that have never previously been explored. After a roughly 50-day journey from Earth, Herschel entered its operational orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system (L2), for a nominal mission lifetime of three years. The Herschel Space Observatory is the largest...
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| | A new study by team including a Penn State astronomer used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that some of the protoplanetary disks originally detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope surround brown dwarfs, star-like objects that are too small and cool to undergo hydrogen fusion.
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| A series of solar flares occurred on the Sun in the last couple of days, and when their repercussions reach Earth, they may cause quite a storm in the Earth's magnetic field... resulting in Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis).