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2020

12.21.20– NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020
12.21.20– NASA Awards Contract for LISA Charge Management Device
12.18.20– NASA’s Webb Sunshield Successfully Unfolds and Tensions in Final Tests
12.17.20 – On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole
12.16.20 – Detailing the Formation of Distant Solar Systems with NASA's Webb Telescope
12.11.20 – For 30th Anniversary, Hubble Releases Images of 30 Celestial Gems
12.10.20 – Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit
12.07.20 – Chandra Returns to Full Science Operations
12.03.20– Hubble Captures Unprecedented Fading of Stingray Nebula
11.27.20– Galaxy Survives Black Hole’s Feast – For Now
11.27.20– New Hubble Data Explains Missing Dark Matter
11.18.20 – NASA’s Webb Completes Significant Testing Milestone for Deployable Tower
11.18.20– NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Uncover Echoes of the Universe’s Creation
11.17.20– Black Hole's Dust Ring May Be Casting Shadows From Heart of a Galaxy
11.17.20– The Cosmic Dust in Your Bones—NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Investigate the Intertwined Origins of Dust and Life
11.12.20– NASA's Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion
11.12.20– A Cosmic Amethyst in a Dying Star
11.05.20 – Hubble Launches Large Ultraviolet-Light Survey of Nearby Stars
11.04.20 – NASA Missions Help Pinpoint the Source of a Unique X-ray, Radio Burst
10.30.20 – Assessing the Habitability of Planets Around Old Red Dwarfs
10.24.20 – NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon
10.22.20 – Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Critical for GPS, Seen in Distant Stars
10.14.20 – The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets
10.14.20 – Simulations Show Webb Telescope Can Reveal Distant Galaxies Hidden in Quasars’ Glare
10.08.20 – Massive Stars Are Factories for Ingredients to Life
10.06.20 – NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Environmental Testing
10.05.20 – NASA’s TESS Creates a Cosmic Vista of the Northern Sky
10.01.29 – Hubble Watches Exploding Star Fade Into Oblivion
9.16.20 – NASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor’ Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star
9.10.20 – Hubble Observations Suggest a Missing Ingredient in Dark Matter Theories
9.03.20 – Primary Mirror for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed
08.27.20 – Hubble Maps Giant Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy
08.25.20 – NASA Missions Explore a ‘TIE Fighter’ Active Galaxy
08.20.20 – Magnetic ‘Rivers’ Feed Young Stars
08.19.20 – Kepler's Supernova Remnant: Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 Years
08.18.20 – Citizen Scientists Discover Dozens of New Cosmic Neighbors in NASA Data
08.13.20 – Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse's Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst
08.11.20 – NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission
08.06.20 – Hubble Uses Earth as a Proxy for Identifying Oxygen on Potentially Habitable Planets Around Other Stars
08.03.20 – Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job
08.03.20 – Pulsing Stars Distribute Key Ingredient for Life
7.16.20 – Runaway Star Might Explain Black Hole's Disappearing Act
07.15.20 – Cases of Black Hole Mistaken Identity
07.1.20 – First Signs of Star Birth Caused by Orion's Wind
06.30.20 – NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
06.25.20 – Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping ‘Bat Shadow’
06.24.20 – NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
06.22.20 – Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
06.18.20 – Hubble Provides Holistic View of Stars Gone Haywire
6.17.20 – A Cosmic Baby Is Discovered, and It's Brilliant
06.08.20 – X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days
06.03.20 – Hubble Makes Surprising Find in Early Universe
06.02.20 – Magnetic Fields Force New Perspective on the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy
06.02.20 – Intense Flash From Milky Way's Black Hole Illuminated Gas Far Outside of Our Galaxy
06.01.20 – Astronomers Revisit First ‘Einstein Ring’ In Archival Data
05.29.20 – Lithium Comes From Exploding Stars
05.28.20 – MAXI J1820+070: Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video
05.28.20 – In Planet Formation, It's Location, Location, Location
05.13.20 – NASA’s TESS Enables Breakthrough Study of Perplexing Stellar Pulsations
05.11.20 – Bending the Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters
04.30.20 – No Blue Skies for Super-Hot Planet WASP-79b
04.28.20 – Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance
04.27.20 – NASA’s Swift Mission Tallied Water From Interstellar Comet Borisov
04.24.20 – Hubble Marks 30 Years in Space With Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth
04.23.20 – Star Survives Close Call with a Black Hole
04.20.20 – Exoplanet Apparently Disappears in Latest Hubble Observations
04.20.20 – Interstellar Comet Borisov Reveals Its Chemistry and Possible Origins
04.17.20 – California Nebula Stars in Final Mosaic by NASA's Spitzer
04.13.20 – NASA Missions Help Reveal the Power of Shock Waves in a Nova Explosion
04.09.20 – In a First, NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf
04.07.20 – Universe’s Expansion May Not Be the Same in All Directions
03.31.20 – Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Sized Black Hole
03.31.20 – NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Full Mirror Deployment a Success
03.19.20 – Chandra Data Tests 'Theory of Everything'
03.19.20 – Quasar Tsunamis Rip Across Galaxies
03.10.20 – Slime Mold Simulations Used to Map Dark Matter Holding Universe Together
03.02.20 – NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission
02.27.20 – Record-breaking Explosion by Black Hole Spotted
02.20.20 – Beyond the Brim, Sombrero Galaxy’s Halo Suggests Turbulent Past
02.20.20 – A Cosmic Jekyll and Hyde
01.30.20 – NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery
01.27.20 – Tarantula Nebula Spins Web of Mystery in Spitzer Image
01.08.20 – Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion
01.08.20 – Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life
01.08.20 – Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
01.07.20 – SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched
01.06.20 – NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone World
01.06.20 – Famous Black Hole Has Jet Pushing Cosmic Speed Limit
01.06.20 – NASA’s TESS Mission Uncovers Its 1st World With Two Stars
01.06.20 – New Technique May Give NASA’s Webb Telescope a Way to Quickly Identify Planets with Oxygen
01.06.20 – Surprise! TESS Shows Ancient North Star Undergoes Eclipses
01.05.20 – SOFIA Reveals New View of Milky Way’s Center
01.05.20 – Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Group Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover
01.05.20 – NASA's Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy
01.05.20 – NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of an Exploded Star
01.05.20 – Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope



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