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JWST a window into the beginning of time

Largest Space Telescope ever, JWST can look back in time The American space agency, NASA, is building the largest space telescope ever. The James Webb Space Telescope, named after NASA’s…

Farthest Star Ever Observed EARENDEL

Earendel, is located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy and is detectable only due to the combined power of human technology and nature via an effect called gravitational lensing. Both Hubble…

extrasolar planet 51 Eridani b

Images of Planet outside our solar system published. 51 Eridani b

For years the hopes of actually seeing a planet outside our own solar system have been tied to the James Web Space Telescope. Now we have an early peak at…

NGC 2174, Monkey Head Nebula,

Wow! Hubble is 24 and celebrates with stunning starbirth image

It is hard to believe, Hubble is 24 years old. Launched on April 24, 1990 astronomers have taken an infrared-light portrait of a roiling region of starbirth located 6,400 light-years…

Four new nearby potentially habitable planet candidates, two of them in the same star system.

Stars with Multiple Habitable Planets Might be Common

An international team of astronomers led by Mikko Tuomi from the University of Hertfordshire announced the discovery of four nearby potentially habitable super-Earth worlds among eight new planet candidates. They orbit the…

Earths Solar System Habitable Zone Planets

Why is Gliese 667c so exciting? Life thats why

Recently KnowledgeOrb reported that Gliese 667c was found to have three planets in the magical habitable zone. This means these planets are in an orbit which in theory cold support…

NASA Reacts to European Discovery of Earth Size Planet, Embarrassment?

NASA issues a statement about the Alpha Centuri Exoplanet Discovery, are they a little embarrassed? As reported by KnowledgeOrb earlier this week an Earth sized exoplanet was discovered orbiting our…

Design your own satellite with this free program!

NASA – If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to build a satellite to peer into a black hole and uncover its secrets, now you can find out…