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This combo of images released by NASA shows a side-by-side comparison of observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from the Webb Telescope

New images from NASA telescope give a never-before-seen look into the cosmos

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The newly released images from the James Webb Space Telescope show dancing galaxies and the death of a shooting star.

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In a long-ago neutron star collision, scientists find a cosmic goldmine

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New Super Camera Seeks Answers to the Mystery of Dark Energy

Deep space photos offer a panoramic view of the universe

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Discovering dark matter

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Have Scientists Finally Found Dark Matter?

Dark matter makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. But up until now, it’s eluded scientists. Yesterday, however, NASA announced a possible breakthrough. A particle detector mounted on the International Space Station may have detected dark matter. The detector is called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and it measures cosmic ray […]

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Hubble Telescope Captures Extreme Deep View of Universe

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The Hubble Space Telescope has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date – an extreme deep shot that captures galaxies as they were just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

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A Panoramic View of Outer Space

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For the Geo Quiz, we’re looking for the name of the observatory, or the country where it’s located, that has taken a new panoramic image of the distant universe.

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Scientists: universe holds three times as many stars

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Using powerful instruments at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, astronomers recently discovered that the universe stretched much further than originally thought. Joining us is Brendan Owens, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.

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Eleven things everyone should know about Hubble, courtesy of a 15-year-old astronomer

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This month, the Hubble Telescope celebrates twenty years in space. Why should we care? And does an orbiting telescope matter to those of us who aren’t scientists?

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