2 posts tagged ‘great observatories program’

• The Best Space Images of 2023

  Gizmodo, Dec 12, 2023

  Space is an inky black yonder... but for the countless light sources that pepper the billions of light-years that human instruments can see. Thanks to ground-based telescopes and observatories parked millions of miles from Earth, 2023 has been a terrific year for space imagery. Astronomers captured fascinating new… Read more...

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• The Hubble Telescope Just Sized Up an Earth-Sized Exoplanet

  Gizmodo, Nov 17, 2023

  The Hubble Space Telescope just ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world’s mass. Read more...

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