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NASA’s Juno Reveals Hellish Landscape of Jupiter’s Moon Io in Latest Flyby
After years of capturing the massive world of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft has recently turned its attention to its Jovian moons. During a close flyby of Jupiter’s spookiest moon, Juno imaged the charred surface of a volcanic world caught in a haunting gravitational tug. This week, NASA shared new images taken by the Juno spacecraft…
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Wild Webb Telescope Image Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Carbon Molecule in Distant Star System
The Webb Space Telescope recently peered into a gassy region of the Orion Nebula and managed to spot a carbon-based molecule that could be a “cornerstone of interstellar organic chemistry,” according to a European Space Agency release. The molecule has never been detected in space before, the release stated. It was found in a system…
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What Three Decades Did for Space Exploration As NASA Worked To Build One New Telescope
In less than three weeks, NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency will finally launch the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit. And it’s been a long time coming.
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NASA Advisor Quits Over Space Telescope Named for Homophobic Administrator
Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz has resigned from a NASA advisory committee on account of the space agency’s perceived mishandling of a request to rename the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Webb was a NASA administrator during the 1960s who aided in the persecution of LGBTQ employees.