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The Planck Space Observatory Is Watching the Universe Being Born

In most of our articles, we have looked at the worlds in our own solar system, or orbiting relatively nearby stars.  There’s so much going on in our neighborhood, it’s easy to get nearsighted and forget that astronomy reaches much … Continue reading

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Hubble Telescope Upgrade

The Hubble Space telescope’s newest camera is already filling in gaps in astronomers’ understanding of events previously too distant and remote to be studied accurately. The Wide Field Camera 3, or WFC3, was installed in May of this year and … Continue reading

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