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Hubble Telescope Put Into Dreaded Safe Mode Due to Ongoing Glitch
NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope isn’t doing so well. The observatory has been suffering from a pesky glitch affecting its gyroscope, causing it to suspend its science operations for a second time in less than six months. On Friday, NASA announced that Hubble had automatically entered safe mode on Tuesday, April 23 when one of…
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Finally, a Telescope Named ‘Einstein’ Is Heading to Space
Space’s latest X-ray telescope, aptly named after the most famous physicist of all time, is poised to unveil the mysteries of nature’s most extreme phenomena.
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The Hubble Telescope Just Sized Up an Earth-Sized Exoplanet
The Hubble Space Telescope last week ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world’s mass. The world is named LTT 1445Ac, and it was discovered in 2022 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The world orbits a red dwarf star (one in a set of…
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NASA’s New Arcade-Style Space Telescope Video Game is Totally Stellar
NASA is drumming up excitement for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with a super-retro 8-bit inspired video game, and it’s honestly really fun. In the game, players are Roman Space Telescope operators that have to collect different celestial objects ranging from exoplanets to dark matter.