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Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

She has worked for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1998. Her current research includes sonification of spatial data, machine learning as applied ...

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Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X ...

Kewley is the director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA ... which include the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona, the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii and the Chandra ...