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Electron microscope image of the new aluminium alloy

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Aluminium alloy could boost spacecraft radiation shielding 100-fold

A new metal alloy keeps its flexibility and strength after high doses of radiation, making it potentially useful for building spacecraft or Mars colonies

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Shocking images show scale of megadrought devastation in North America

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The Pillars of Creation as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

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JWST has taken a star-studded new image of the Pillars of Creation

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

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Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

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Cows on a green globe

How spherical-cow philosophy makes hard physics problems easy

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Watch out for three meteor showers set to occur in October

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By combining data from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to trace light that was emitted by the large white elliptical galaxy at left through the spiral galaxy at right and identify the effects of interstellar dust in the spiral galaxy. This image of galaxy pair VV 191 includes near-infrared light from Webb, and ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble. Webb?s near-infrared data also show us the galaxy?s longer, extremely dusty spiral arms in far more detail, giving them an appearance of overlapping with the central bulge of the bright white elliptical galaxy on the left. Although the two foreground galaxies are relatively close astronomically speaking, they are not actively interacting. Don?t overlook the background scenery! Like many Webb images, this image of VV 191 shows many galaxies that lie great distances away. For example, two patchy spirals to the upper left of the elliptical galaxy have similar apparent sizes, but show up in very different colors. One is likely very dusty and the other very far away, but researchers need to obtain data known as spectra to determine which is which.

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JWST and Hubble teamed up to take a stunning image of two galaxies

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Magnetic fields in NGC 1068, or M77, are shown as streamlines over a visible light and X-ray composite image of the galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The magnetic fields align along the entire length of the massive spiral arms ? 24,000 light years across (0.8 kiloparsecs) ? implying that the gravitational forces that created the galaxy?s shape are also compressing its magnetic field. This supports the leading theory of how the spiral arms are forced into their iconic shape known as ?density wave theory.? SOFIA studied the galaxy using far-infrared light (89 microns) to reveal facets of its magnetic fields that previous observations using visible and radio telescopes could not detect. Credits: NASA/SOFIA; NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-to-shape-a-spiral-galaxy

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Did magnetism shape the universe? An epic experiment suggests it did

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The Hubble Space Telescope

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SpaceX may help the Hubble Space Telescope boost its lifespan

NASA and SpaceX are studying whether it would be possible to use a Dragon spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope’s orbit, extending its lifetime by up to 20 years

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Hubble and JWST both saw the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid mission

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JWST has taken a picture of the gaseous ‘skeleton’ of a spiral galaxy

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How NASA's DART spacecraft will divert asteroids

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JWST has captured an astonishing view of Neptune and its rings

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