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Posted on July 31, 2021 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan NASA Releases First Detailed Map of the Insides of MarsNASA’s InSight mission revealed Mars’s inner workings down to its core, highlighting great differences of the red planet from our blue world. A trio of … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 2, 2021 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan James Webb Space Telescope’s golden mirror in final testThe technological marvel that is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is going through final testing before being shipped to the launch site. The successor to … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 29, 2021 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Uncover Lonesome Black Holes NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide an unprecedented window into the infrared universe when it launches in the mid-2020s. One of the … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 1, 2021 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan The Most Intimate Portrait Yet of a Black HoleThe Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, an international team of radio astronomers that has been staring down the throat of a giant black hole for years, on … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 28, 2021 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan How NJ played a role in the Perseverance rover missionThis week, we got to witness history in space exploration as the Perseverance rover safely landed on the surface of Mars. The rovers main mission is to … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 1, 2021 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Did an Alien Life-Form Do a Drive-By of Our Solar System in 2017? On Nov. 12, 2018, Avi Loeb, then the chairman of the astronomy department at Harvard, and a young research associate, Shmuel … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 1, 2021 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Jupiter, Saturn Will Look Like Double Planet Scientists have been greeted by the sight of jet black chunks of rock and soil from an asteroid after opening a capsule that returned from deep space … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 30, 2020 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Jupiter, Saturn Will Look Like Double Planet Just after sunset on the evening of December 21,  2020,  Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer together in Earth’s night sky than they have been since the Middle Ages, offering … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 1, 2020 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan NASA Mission Springs a Small Leak After Touching an Asteroid   The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft collected rock and dirt samples from Bennu, but it appears to be losing some of what it grabbed. NASA’s effort to … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 1, 2020 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan  Super telescope’s giant camera spies broccoli                               How do you test the new sensor for the world’s largest digital camera? You … Continue reading →

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