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NASA’s Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
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Dr. Thomas Hughes
Infrared emission from methane suggests atmospheric heating by auroral processes. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf ...
NASA’s Juno to Get Close Look at Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io on Dec. 30
Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes
The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons. NASA’s ...
NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
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Dr. Thomas Hughes
The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby
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Dr. Thomas Hughes
On Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by ...