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NASA’s Roman Mission Will Test Competing Cosmic Acceleration Theories

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • March 22nd, 2022

A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions of galaxies strewn across space and time.

Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets

NASA Exoplanet Archive • Project News • March 21st, 2022

The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. Not so long ago, we lived in a universe with only a small number of known planets, all of them orbiting our Sun. But a new raft of discoveries marks a...

NASA Spots Giant Debris Cloud Created by Clashing Celestial Bodies

Spitzer • News Release • March 18th, 2022

Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars.

How NASA’s Roman Could Help Find Other Earths by Surveying Space Dust

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • March 16th, 2022

A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems’ habitable zones, or the regions around stars where temperatures are mild enough that liquid water could pool on worlds’...

NASA’s Roman Mission Could Snap First Image of a Jupiter-Like World

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • February 24th, 2022

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty disks around nearby stars with detail up to a thousand times better than possible with other observatories.

Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size Planets

Spitzer • News Release • February 22nd, 2022

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system.

IRSA Highlights from 2021

Infrared Science Archive • Project News • January 27th, 2022

IRSA had a number of milestones, releases and updates in 2021. Here is a recap of some of the high-level announcements.

Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption

Universe Unplugged • News • January 25th, 2022

It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to mariners navigating by the southern sky in the mid-1840s. But the star Eta Carinae quickly faded into obscurity after its brief outburst. Now, over a century and a half later, NASA space observatories (probing from infrared...

NED 2021 Release Highlights

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database • Project News • January 19th, 2022

In 2021, NED had six releases. The NED November and December 2021 Releases included integration of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC 2.0.1), 989K new object links, 323K new sources from the literature cross-identified with NED objects, and 5.3 million new photometric data points have been...

ZTF Analyzes Impact of Starlink Satellites

ZTF • News Release • January 17th, 2022

A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks but state that the effect on the science conducted with the ZTF survey is so far minimal.

NASA’s Roman Mission Will Test Competing Cosmic Acceleration Theories

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • March 22nd, 2022

A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions of...

Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets

NASA Exoplanet Archive • March 21st, 2022

The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. Not so long ago, we lived in a...

NASA Spots Giant Debris Cloud Created by Clashing Celestial Bodies

Spitzer • March 18th, 2022

Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars.

How NASA’s Roman Could Help Find Other Earths by Surveying Space Dust

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • March 16th, 2022

A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems’...

NASA’s Roman Mission Could Snap First Image of a Jupiter-Like World

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • February 24th, 2022

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty...

Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size Planets

Spitzer • February 22nd, 2022

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system.

IRSA Highlights from 2021

Infrared Science Archive • January 27th, 2022

IRSA had a number of milestones, releases and updates in 2021. Here is a recap of some of the high-level announcements.

Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption

Universe Unplugged • January 25th, 2022

It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to mariners navigating by the southern sky in the mid-1840s. But the star Eta Carinae quickly faded into...

NED 2021 Release Highlights

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database • January 19th, 2022

In 2021, NED had six releases. The NED November and December 2021 Releases included integration of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC 2.0.1), 989K new object links, 323K new...

ZTF Analyzes Impact of Starlink Satellites

ZTF • January 17th, 2022

A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks but state that the effect on the science conducted with the ZTF survey is...