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Astronomer Heidi Hammel Shares Emotional Experiences With Eclipses And Webb Telescope

Heidi Hammel shares emotional experiences of witnessing solar eclipses and the James Webb Space Telescope launch, highlighting the connection between study...

Top News · Apr 8, 2024

Neptune isn't as blue as you think, and these new images of the planet prove it

A new treatment of images collected by Voyager 2 in the late 1980s using data from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the actual colors of the solar system's distant ice giants, Neptune and Uranus.

LiveScience · Jan 5, 2024

Don't look so blue, Neptune: Now astronomers know this planet's true color

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of light greenish blue.

WEKU · Jan 5, 2024

NASA’s Voyager engineers are devising clever ways to preserve our farthest mission

Voyager will soon power down the heat to some instruments to buy the craft a bit more time as its nuclear battery powers dwindle.

Inverse · Jun 25, 2022

Once a year, we get closer to NASA's Voyagers — here's why

They aren't going backward — we're just going forward. Our orbit to the Sun makes us closer to our large adult sons.

Inverse · May 13, 2022

7 ways the Webb Telescope will unlock the Solar System's secrets

The James Webb Space Telescope will study Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, and other far flung places that ground-based telescopes can't see as well.

Inverse · Feb 7, 2022