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Webb Telescope Spots a Plume of Unusual Size Spewing From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
The Webb Space Telescope’s latest subject is a wet one: a gigantic plume of water vapour spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
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New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.
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NASA’s DART Asteroid-Smashing Mission Changed the Course of Planetary Defence
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid and altering its orbit, in a pioneering test of planetary defence.
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Webb Telescope Spectrograph Suffers Software Glitch
NASA says the Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph is currently unavailable for science operations following a software glitch earlier this month.