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Aft Skirt Being Lowered into the Shuttle Gallery. From July 20, 2023 Space Shuttle Endeavour

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See the tricky logistics behind displaying the shuttle Endeavour

Six months of preparation are needed to display the space shuttle in a vertical position at the California Science Center

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Is it possible to drill a hole straight through a planet?

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The best new science fiction books of August 2023

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The best new science fiction books of August 2023

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Full length photo of astronaut in space suit and helmet on Mars walking away from the camera towards a dust storm in the distance, red orange all around

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In Light-Years There's No Hurry review: Embracing a cosmic perspective

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This artist concept portrays the star PDS 70 and its inner protoplanetary disc

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Water seen in young planet system shows Earth may have always been wet

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Best science fiction films about space, according to an astrophysicist

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Best science fiction films about space, according to an astrophysicist

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These three objects were originally identified as galaxies but they may actually be “dark starsâ€

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JWST may have spotted enormous stars powered by dark matter

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Bizarre portal-like ‘ring wormholes’ could let you time travel

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India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole

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Caption The first anniversary image from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it?s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you?d never know it from Webb?s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems. The young stars at the center of many of these disks are similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller. The heftiest in this image is the star S1, which appears amid a glowing cave it is carving out with its stellar winds in the lower half of the image. The lighter-colored gas surrounding S1 consists of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a family of carbon-based molecules that are among the most common compounds found in space. For more detail on what is happening where in Webb?s image of Rho Ophiuchi, watch the video tour and read the press release. Credits Image NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI) Image Processing Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image

After a year of producing incredible imagery, the James Webb Space Telescope team has released a picture of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, Earth's closest star-forming region

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The 8 most dazzling images from JWST’s first year of science

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We must address a key obstacle to our new age of space exploration

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Time appears to run five times slower in the early universe

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The best new science fiction books of July 2023

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