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Majestic photographs of the world’s major telescopes

Photographer Julian Abrams' new project, Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, celebrates some key telescopes from around the world 鈥� and the impressive structures that house them

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LARGE REGIONS OF ROCK AND METAL: PSYCHE ASTEROID ILLUSTRATION This illustration depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA?s mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in August 2022 and arrive at the asteroid in 2026, where it will orbit for 21 months and investigate its composition. Based on data obtained from Earth, scientists believe Psyche is a mixture of metal and rock. The rock and metal may be in large provinces, or areas, on the asteroid, as illustrated in this rendering. Observing and measuring how the metal and rock are mixed will help scientists determine how Psyche formed. Exploring the asteroid could also give valuable insight into how our own planet and others formed. The Psyche team will use a magnetometer to measure the asteroid?s magnetic field. A multispectral imager will capture images of the surface, as well as data about Psyche?s composition and topography. Spectrometers will analyze the neutrons and gamma rays coming from the surface to reveal the elements that make up the asteroid itself. The illustration was created by Peter Rubin. View or download the full resolution versions from NASA?s Photojournal Date Added: 03-29-2021 Credit: Peter Rubin

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Spacecraft are heading to a metal asteroid and Jupiter’s moons in 2023

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Dark dunes surrounding Mars's northern polar cap

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Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles all year round

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Watch Orion capsule splash down as NASA鈥檚 Artemis I mission ends

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A view of Earth rising over the moon from the Orion capsule

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Amazing image of crescent Earth rising over the moon captured by Orion

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Growing off-world diversity is making space for everyone

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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the LSST Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100??C to reduce noise. Once complete and in place atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the camera will survey the southern night sky for a decade, creating a trove of data that scientists will pore over to better understand some of the universe's biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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Astronomers have unveiled the world鈥檚 largest digital camera

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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

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

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Why we should go back to the moon 鈥� and this time to build a home

Achieving a lunar outpost is important not as a means of escaping our home planet, but learning better ways to thrive on it

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Juno spacecraft prepares for close encounter with icy moon Europa

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Swarm of light-sail spacecraft could be propelled by laser on the moon

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NASA made enough oxygen on Mars to last an astronaut for 100 minutes

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JWST’s images of the cosmos should be for all, not just astronomers

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