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Eye on infinity: NASA celebrates Hubble's 35th year in orbit
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Flew by a Strange, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid. See the New Images From the Approach
The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...
NASA’s Lucy Captures Ice Cream Cone–Shaped Asteroid That Defies Expectations
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...
NASA releases new photos of faraway galaxies to celebrate 35th anniversary of Hubble Telescope
The photos capture both our neighboring planets and galaxies far, far away in a stunning release to celebrate one of NASA’s ...
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Gorgeous deep space photo captures the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by glowing gas
Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft snaps first close-ups of weird peanut-shaped asteroid
NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.
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‘Odd-shaped’ asteroid with ‘strikingly complicated’ structure leaves NASA scientists surprised
Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: “Asteroid ...