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If Planet Nine is out there, this telescope might actually find it
A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...
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New, powerful telescope facility in Chile to film 10-year-long 'movie' of the sky
Later this year, astronomers will start filming an unprecedented 10-year movie of the southern sky, using a brand-new and ...
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Is 'Planet Nine' real?—This telescope might finally have the answer
Dubbed "Planet Nine," this hypothetical celestial body is believed to influence the orbits of distant, small objects beyond ...
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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL–Caltech A super-Earth that could explain the ... and the planet-measuring ESPRESSO instrument on the ...
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NASA's SPHEREx space telescope releases its first images on mission to map millions of galaxies
A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of ... a SPHEREx project scientist at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the news release. "It's performing just as it was ...
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New, powerful telescope facility in Chile to film 10-year-long 'movie' of the sky
Astronomers are about to use a powerful new telescope to scan the entire southern ... This observatory has been under construction on a mountaintop in Chile for years, and it's almost ready ...