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Topic: Astronomy (page 8)

A bright comet with large dust and gas trails (Getty Images/solarseven)

The most massive comet ever found

The Pentagon (Getty Images/Kiyoshi Tanno)

Pentagon declassifies bizarre UFO docs

This is an artist's illustration of a massive new exoplanet called AB Aurigae b, confirmed to be forming via new and archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope. AB Aurigae b is estimated to be about nine times more massive than Jupiter and orbits its host star over two times farther than Pluto is from our Sun. (NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

Hubble spots a "weird" Jupiter

This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA wants two more Mars landers

"A Trip to the Moon." French movie by Georges Melies, 1902. Space rocket hits moon in the eye. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Scientists elated by lunar junk impact

James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Finding ET through... pollutants?

This artist’s impression shows a close-up view of Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The planet is believed to be rocky and to have a mass about a quarter that of Earth. Two other planets known to orbit Proxima Centauri are visible in the image too: Proxima b, a planet with about the same mass as Earth that orbits the star every 11 days and is within the habitable zone, and candidate Proxima c, which is on a longer five-year orbit around the star. (ESO/L. Calçada)

New planet in our galactic neighborhood

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the seventh batch of 60 Starlink satellites which will provide global internet service stands ready for launch on April 22, 2020 at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

SpaceX satellites destroyed by storm

Artist rendition of an asteroid pair, shortly after separation. Over millennia these objects will drift apart and become harder to identify. At 300 years old, the asteroid pair 2019 PR2 and 2019 QR6 are the youngest found to date. (UC Berkeley/SETI Institute)

The youngest asteroids ever found

Magnetar. An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce radio emission. Known magnetars rotate every few seconds, but theoretically, “ultra-long period magnetars” could rotate much more slowly. (Photo courtesy of The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR))

A space anomaly blinks slowly at Earth

Engineering teams at NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore monitor progress as the observatory's second primary mirror wing rotates into position, on January 8, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. Webb, an infrared telescope with a 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) primary mirror, was folded up for launch and underwent an unprecedented deployment process to unfold in space. As NASA's next flagship observatory, Webb will study every phase of cosmic history from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

Webb telescope reaches its home in space

Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASAs James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen at the launch pad December 23, 2021 at Europes Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic historyfrom within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

Humanity's space travel plans for 2022

This artist’s impression shows an example of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex visible in the background. Rogue planets have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Rogue planets wander through the galaxy

A technical drawing is seen on screen as Systems Engineers Christopher Murray (R) works at his console at the Webb Mission Office ahead of the James Web Space Telescopes launch at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 3, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The James Webb telescope's big gamble

The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet Hubble's ambitious successor

Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

Space junk will give Earth a ring

Artist's impression of a hot and dense accretion disk around a black hole, which can be a rich production site of heavy elements. Neutron-rich material is ejected from the disk, enabling the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). The light blue region is a particularly fast ejection of matter, called a jet, which typically originates parallel to the disk's rotation axis. (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

There's gold in them thar black holes

LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) mosaic of the south polar region, width ~600 km (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)

The moon has an icy secret

The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Astronomy doubles down on search for ET

Jupiter (Getty Images/martin_adams2000)

Jupiter's red spot is very, very deep

MOND models—which don’t require dark matter—have not previously been able to reproduce the temperature variations measured in the cosmic microwave background (shown here), a relic from the big bang. But now researchers have created a MOND-inspired model that matches these data just as well as dark matter models do. (WMAP Science Team/NASA)

Perhaps dark matter doesn't exist at all

Magnet Over Earth (Getty Images/CSA Images)

Is Earth inside a magnetic tunnel?

ARTIST’S RENDITION OF A NEWLY-DISCOVERED JUPITER-LIKE EXOPLANET ORBITING A WHITE DWARF, OR DEAD STAR. THIS SYSTEM IS EVIDENCE THAT PLANETS CAN SURVIVE THEIR HOST STAR’S EXPLOSIVE RED GIANT PHASE AND IS THE VERY FIRST CONFIRMED PLANETARY SYSTEM THAT SERVES AS AN ANALOG TO THE FATE OF THE SUN AND JUPITER IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM. (W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko)

A glimpse into our solar system's future

Radio tower emitting (Getty Images/alengo)

A mysterious repeating chirp from space

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