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Take a close-up look at a small portion of the magnificent Rosette Nebula, as photographed by Hubble. Though Hubble cannot take 3D pictures, this video is a visualization treatment of the photo to give a sense of depth with foreground and background stars. 🔭 🧪

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Today is #WorldPenguinDay! This infrared image from #NASAWebb, taken to mark its second year of science, shows an interaction between a distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at left, the Egg. Take a closer look: webbtelescope.pub/3EP21MO 🔭 🧪

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Today is #WorldPenguinDay! This infrared image from #NASAWebb, taken to mark its second year of science, shows an interaction between a distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at left, the Egg. Take a closer look: webbtelescope.pub/3EP21MO 🔭 🧪

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Zoom across 6,500 light-years through a star-studding field to visit the planetary nebula NGC 2899, as photographed by Hubble for its 35th anniversary. 🔭 🧪

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Celebrate Hubble’s 35th year in orbit! In honor of the legendary space telescope that redefined the universe, NASA released an assortment of observations recently taken by Hubble, including data used in this video of Mars at the start of Martian spring. (1/5) 🧵 🧪 🔭

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Forming stars are hidden inside thick cocoons of dust, emitting light in several wavelengths that pass through the dust clouds and can be detected by different telescopes. Slide through the wavelengths to see stars forming in the Rosette Nebula: viewspace.org/interactives... 🔭 🧪

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Celebrate Hubble’s 35th year in orbit! In honor of the legendary space telescope that redefined the universe, NASA released an assortment of observations recently taken by Hubble, including data used in this video of Mars at the start of Martian spring. (1/5) 🧵 🧪 🔭

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Hubble is practically synonymous with the public's understanding of astronomy and space. It's also an amazing example of the great science enabled by government investment, both initial (to develop and launch the telescope) and continued (servicing missions, operations, and research support). hbd! 🧪

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Happy Anniversary Hubble! And congratulations to all the people who built, repaired and supported this icon of science over the last 35+ years!

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Hubble has spent 35 years in orbit! 🥳 Celebrate with an array of compelling images recently taken by Hubble: Mars, dramatic views of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent spiral galaxy: bit.ly/4jjsAs7 🔭 🧪

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Hubble has spent 35 years in orbit! 🥳 Celebrate with an array of compelling images recently taken by Hubble: Mars, dramatic views of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent spiral galaxy: bit.ly/4jjsAs7 🔭 🧪

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CNN's "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper" takes a look at the James Webb Space Telescope as it takes us on a journey to the beginning of time to hopefully answer humanity’s most existential questions. STScI's Ori Fox joins the conversation. 🔭 🧪

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In this Hubble image of galaxy NGC 4258, young stars show up in ultraviolet light, older stars in its core are white, and dust shimmies and scurries across the bottom in brown. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. 🔭 🧪

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This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. This new Hubble image is part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, coming later this week. 🔭 🧪

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Zoom through space to arrive at NGC 1333, a dark nebula bursting with star formation, as seen by Hubble. Raw material surrounding the nebula fuels a firestorm of star birth that is taking place inside a dusty cocoon. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. 🔭 🧪

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The blue star cluster shining in the center of the Tarantula Nebula—seen in this #NASAWebb image, was born within the ribbons of silk-like dust that surround it. In time, all of this dust will either be blown away by or absorbed into new stars and planets: bit.ly/4bI5Tv5 🔭 🧪

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Explore the formation of a star, as only #NASAWebb can. This 3D tour exposes the structures around the protostar L1527 IRS in infrared light. Telescopes that observe visible light see L1527 as a dark, featureless cloud. 🔭 🧪

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Watch as this visualization reveals the stars of the Orion constellation in three dimensions. The familiar pattern on the sky distorts into a whole new perspective. The sequence begins with a view of Orion in our sky. Featured in this scene are some of the brightest stars, like Betelgeuse. 🔭 🧪

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Studying billions of objects at once is so fetch! ...okay, we'll stop trying to make fetch happen. The NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory will image billions of stars and galaxies across the entire Southern sky, night after night, because it's what's called a “survey telescope”—but what does that mean? 🔭🧪

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This Hubble image shows massive stars in Gum 29, which are unleashing ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds that etch away the enveloping gas cloud. The result? Pillars, ridges, and filaments of gas and dust! Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. 🔭 🧪

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This new #NASAWebb image shows a dying star in unprecedented detail. Mid-infrared light highlights tangled patterns in the rings and holes in the pink interior. This scene was produced by two overlapping stars that “pop” with blue spikes at center: bit.ly/424Lygw 🔭 🧪

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Hubble has uncovered a magnetar—a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field—traversing our galaxy. Mysteriously, the runaway magnetar was not formed from a supernova explosion as initially thought: bit.ly/3FKcNEr 🔭 🧪

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This new #NASAWebb image shows a dying star in unprecedented detail. Mid-infrared light highlights tangled patterns in the rings and holes in the pink interior. This scene was produced by two overlapping stars that “pop” with blue spikes at center: bit.ly/424Lygw 🔭 🧪

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Now that the world's largest digital camera is installed, what work remains before Rubin goes live? For starters, hooking up and testing all the camera's connections to the telescope, before cooling it down to -100 C (-148 F) 🥶 Read all the details at rubinobservatory.org/news/prepari...! 🔭🧪

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A cavernous area fit for a dragon. 🐉 #NASAWebb revealed more than 200 massive, young stars among the pillars of gas and dust in star-forming region NGC 604. This area is more than 2.7 million light-years from Earth in the Triangulum galaxy: bit.ly/4icfWLh 🔭 🧪

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#NASAWebb has provided a surprising twist 👀 in the narrative surrounding what is believed to be the first star observed in the act of swallowing a planet. (1/6) 🧵 🔭 🧪

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The “killer” came from inside the star system! #NASAWebb conducted a post-mortem of the first-ever observed planetary engulfment event, when a star swallows an orbiting planet. What it found was surprising: webbtelescope.pub/4iOzfe6 🔭 🧪

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The jets seen in Herbig-Haro 30, observed by #NASAWebb, are a part of the star formation process. As the star gathers material, much of that material is launched back out along the star’s poles as high-velocity jets. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tazaki, et al. 🔭 🧪

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How are we preparing for the launch of #NASARoman? Hear from three team members as they share what makes the Roman mission unique, how they’re preparing future users of the telescope data, and the importance of thermal vacuum testing: bit.ly/4iVm4rp 🔭 🧪

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WATCH: This visualization reveals the stars of the Orion constellation in three dimensions. Watch as the familiar pattern on the sky distorts into a whole new perspective. 🔭 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/Gwo94...

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Hello, BUFFALO! From 2018 to 2020, Hubble completed its Beyond Ultra-deep Frontier Fields and Legacy Observations (BUFFALO) program, which studied the surroundings of six galaxy clusters that were previously observed by the Hubble Frontier Fields program. Credit: NASA, ESA. 🔭 🧪

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Hubble data was combined with Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Spitzer, and ALMA Observatory data for this composite image of 30 Doradus, seen in X-ray, visible, infrared, and radio. The massive young stars in 30 Doradus send strong winds out into space. Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL /ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA. 🔭 🧪

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NEW: The Crab Nebula—the result of a supernova in 1054—originally appeared as a bright, new star that was visible even in the daytime. Learn more about this storied supernova remnant on a poster of this observation from #NASAWebb: webbtelescope.pub/41VJ6rf 🔭 🧪

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NEW: The Crab Nebula—the result of a supernova in 1054—originally appeared as a bright, new star that was visible even in the daytime. Learn more about this storied supernova remnant on a poster of this observation from #NASAWebb: webbtelescope.pub/41VJ6rf 🔭 🧪

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Find your favorite videos from the Hubble, #NASAWebb and #NASARoman space telescope missions on STScI’s YouTube account. We’re adding more science videos every week! 🔭 🧪

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☄️ New observations from #NASAWebb have better constrained the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, and have given researchers insights about how to study future small, fast-moving objects, including the next one that might be heading our way: webbtelescope.pub/4lenO0W 🔭 🧪

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NEW: An image from the MeerKAT radio telescope puts a star-forming region captured by #NASAWebb in context. Magnetic forces are shaping the region surrounding our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole: webbtelescope.pub/4iDDwB3 🔭 🧪

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Watch as this visualization reveals the stars of the Orion constellation in three dimensions. The familiar pattern on the sky distorts into a whole new perspective. youtu.be/9uhVae828lM 🔭 🧪

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Watch as this visualization reveals the stars of the Orion constellation in three dimensions. The familiar pattern on the sky distorts into a whole new perspective. youtu.be/9uhVae828lM 🔭 🧪

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