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  Webb telescope may have just revealed an alien world with air

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  And it's only 48 light-years away. Astronomers have homed in on a world they believe might have just the right conditions for a thick atmosphere and an ocean half the size of the Atlantic. The exoplanet — a world orbiting a star other than the sun — is LHS 1140 b, and it's about 48 light-years away …

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  Astronaut snaps strange iridescent clouds at the edge of space

  Mashable - Elisha Sauers

  Twenty years ago, they were a total mystery. Astronaut Matthew Dominick was going about 17,500 mph or so above Earth when he peered out his window and saw this remarkable view. Dominick, who launched to the International Space Station in March as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, pulled out …

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  NASA spacecraft catches volcano plumes blasting into space

  Mashable - Elisha Sauers

  This Jupiter moon is the most volcanic world in our solar system. When NASA's Juno orbiter swooped close to a Jupiter moon, it saw a pair of volcanic plumes spurting material into space, something the robotic spacecraft hadn't captured before. The plumes rise high above Io, Jupiter's third-largest …

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  Freaky asteroids flew by Earth, and NASA captured footage

  Mashable - Mark Kaufman

  "Pics or it didn't happen!" A giant NASA radar in the remote Mojave Desert imaged some formidable asteroids — including a 1-mile-wide behemoth — as they passed through our planet's neighborhood. Fortunately, there are no known asteroids that might potentially hit Earth for over a century, and the …

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  Feast your eyes on the stunning images spacecraft captured this year

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  "It's just extraordinary." NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the volcanic world Io this year. The extraterrestrial vistas, including a view of the most powerful volcano known to humanity, didn't disappoint. "It's absolutely stunning, stunning imagery," Ashley …

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  Webb might have found something the universe no longer makes

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  Astronomers are baffled. Astronomers say they've confirmed that three little red dots observed at the dawn of time by the James Webb Space Telescope are in fact galaxies, flouting theories about the early universe. Not only that, but researchers say those galaxies seem to host enormous supermassive …