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NASA's First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

The Habitable Worlds Observatory aims to directly image Earth-size planets around sunlike stars to detect biosignatures and determine how common Earth-like worlds are.

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fromFuturism

3 weeks ago

Four Telescopes Confirm There's Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet showing an unprecedentedly high carbon-dioxide-to-water ratio, distant activity at ~6 AU, an unusual dust cocoon, and unknown origins.

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fromTheregister

3 months ago

NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets

NASA is developing a metal alloy that shrinks when heated for the Habitable Worlds Observatory's requirements. This addresses thermal expansion challenges in space telescopes.

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NASA's First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

Four Telescopes Confirm There's Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets

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