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The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

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A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...