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Ancient Gas Clouds Spotted by Astronomers May Be Remnants of First Stars
Astronomers operating the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope think they’ve found three gas clouds that formed in the aftermath of the very first stars, when the Big Bang was still in the rear-view mirror.
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Aftermath of DART Asteroid Impact Seen by Very Large Telescope in Chile
Last fall, NASA’s DART spacecraft smashed into Dimorphos, a small asteroid some 7 million miles away, in an unprecedented attempt to change the orbit of a natural body in space. Now, two teams of astronomers have released images of the collision’s aftermath taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
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A Software Glitch Forced the Webb Space Telescope Into Safe Mode
The Webb Space Telescope’s instruments have been in safe mode intermittently since December 7, but scientific operations resumed earlier this week, NASA said in a press release on Wednesday.
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One of Webb Telescope’s Tools Has a Glitch
The Webb Space Telescope has been dutifully beaming back incredible images of the cosmos since its “perfect” alignment earlier this year — but nothing is entirely perfect, even a $US10 ($14) billion telescope. One of Webb’s observing mechanisms has apparently run into a bit of trouble, and mission engineers are working to figure out a…