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We're more connected than it may seem. Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. @NASAWebb allowed researchers to see them gathered in vast interconnected threads, part of the “cosmic web.” http://go.nasa.gov/433qCnk
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NASA’s Webb Identifies the Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a thread-like arrangement of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the big bang.
Jessica Evans (NASA)
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The motion of black holes and other massive objects can cause ripples in space-time – gravitational waves. Scientists now see evidence of a universal background of gravitational waves, created by supermassive black hole pairs swirling in space. https://go.nasa.gov/3PwynPD
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15 Years of Radio Data Reveals Evidence of Space-Time Murmur

Scientists have found evidence of a universal background of gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space-time.
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#PewPew! To send more information more quickly, @nasa is testing space lasers for communications. More data = more discoveries! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-laser-communications-relay-a-year-of-experimentation
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NASA’s Laser Communications Relay: A Year of Experimentation

NASA’s first two-way laser relay system completed its first year of experiments on June 28 – a milestone for a game-changing technology that could be the future for sending and receiving data from space.
Katherine Schauer (NASA)
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With missions like @NASAPersevere, @EuropaClipper, and Mars Sample Return, @nasa is investing in science from promising worlds that may have, or once have had, life. What we learn in our solar system will inform our search for life beyond it. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1763/the-hunt-for-life-on-mars-and-elsewhere-in-the-solar-system/
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The Hunt for Life on Mars – and Elsewhere in the Solar System

The search for life within our solar system, already begun on Mars, soon will extend to distant, icy moons.
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In the search for life beyond Earth, we are investigating Mars, and moving closer to answers from the Red Planet. Meanwhile, icy moons farther away in our solar system are intriguing targets as well! http://go.nasa.gov/1587
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To tell whether an exoplanet could support life, we need to know a lot about the star it's orbiting. Follow two @nasa rocket teams as they journey to Australia to see what our closest stellar neighbors can tell us about which stars make the best hosts.
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A crucial carbon molecule was detected by @NASAWebb in space for the first time. Scientists identified the carbon compound in a planet-forming disk around a young star system about 1,350 light-years away in the Orion Nebula. https://go.nasa.gov/3NLuk0y
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Webb Makes First Detection of Crucial Carbon Molecule

This molecule, never before seen in space, is believed to be a cornerstone of interstellar organic chemistry.
Madison Olson (NASA)
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Lacaille 9352 is a red dwarf star 11 light-years away. Relative to the Sun, it is smaller, cooler, and less luminous. We know of two planets there, and it's a possible target to image an Earth-size world with a future observatory! https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets/#/star/GJ_887/
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Eyes On Exoplanets – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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#FridayFeeling ?
90 light-years away, there's a cool exoplanet with pretty good atmosphere.
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Discovery Alert: a 'Cool' Planet – with Plenty of Atmosphere?

A newly discovered, Neptune-like planet some 90 light-years away might possess a robust atmosphere – and perhaps even a 'tail.'
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''Biology is chemistry with history.''
There isn't a consensus on requirements for life beyond Earth. But those who research life’s origin suggest a few likely “must-haves'' to spot: water, energy and, perhaps, an imbalance in atmospheric gases. https://go.nasa.gov/43SiabU
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Life on Other Planets: What is Life and What Does It Need?

New technology and deeper understanding are moving us closer to detecting signs of life on another world.
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Today, #Solstice2023, is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. For a tidally-locked exoplanet, one side always faces the star, meaning days never end. The zone between day and night is also locked in permanent twilight, seen here on Earth.
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Tidally locked planets (Earth at Twilight) - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

For a tidally locked planet there is no day or night, only freezing darkness on one side and burning constant sunlight on the other.
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Never forget, you're made of starstuff✨
Space telescopes help us explore our origins, like how materials from bygone stars help form our bodies. So whenever you see a space pic, consider it an elemental selfie connecting you to the universe! #NationalSelfieDay📷: @NASAWebb
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With so much unknown about what even constitutes a “sign of life,” astrobiologists are working on a new framework. It acknowledges that scientific exploration in the search for life beyond Earth is a twisted, winding road, rather than straightforward path. https://go.nasa.gov/43SiabU
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Life on Other Planets: What is Life and What Does It Need?

New technology and deeper understanding are moving us closer to detecting signs of life on another world.
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As the search for life beyond Earth begins in earnest, among the planets in our own solar system as well as far distant systems known only by their light, @nasa scientists and partners around the world have some starting points. Dig in: https://go.nasa.gov/43SiabU
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Life on Other Planets: What is Life and What Does It Need?

New technology and deeper understanding are moving us closer to detecting signs of life on another world.
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An international team of researchers used @NASAWebb to calculate the amount of heat energy coming from the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c. The results suggest that the planet’s atmosphere – if it exists at all – is extremely thin.
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In 2016, at the age of 89, Opal Lee walked 1,400 miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in an effort to get #Juneteenth recognized as a national holiday. Today we look to the stars and celebrate every step.
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Hubble Spots Bright Splash of Stars Amid Ripples of Gas and Dust

Open cluster KMHK 1231 is a group of stars loosely bound by gravity. Seen in the upper left of this Hubble Space Telescope image, this cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud is surrounded by a crimson nebula of gas and dust extending both to the right…
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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In 2015, astronomers discovered four stars in a system with one planet. They were dubbed the ''four fathers,'' and became only the second quadruple-star system known to host a planet. Famous or not, here's to all dads. Happy Father's Day! https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/185/four-fathers-new-exoplanet-discovery-part-of-a-quadruple-star-system/
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Four-fathers: New exoplanet discovery part of a quadruple-star system

Astronomers have discovered the second known case of a planet residing in a quadruple star system. The planet was known before, but was thought to have only three stars, not four.
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Named Ran, after the Norse goddess of the sea, Epsilon Eridani is one of the closest stars to Earth and visible to the naked eye. It's a prime target to look for Earth-size planets in the habitable zone. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets/#/star/eps_Eri/
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Eyes On Exoplanets – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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You could say we're proud of this image. Viewing the M82 galaxy in different wavelengths shows us more about our universe. Spitzer (red/orange), @NASAHubble (yellow/green) and @chandraxray (blue/purple) span the spectrum from infrared to X-ray! ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜
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Ten new planets join the known worlds today, bringing our total of confirmed exoplanets to 5,445! http://Exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/
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Discoveries Dashboard | Discovery – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

See the latest real-time data dashboard from NASA on exoplanet discoveries, planet types, and more.
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How is @NASAAstrobio searching for life beyond Earth? We start with the only planet known to harbor life. And you're standing on it. Earth, as it is now and how it once was, is at the center of the search for life elsewhere.
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1761/beginnings-life-on-our-world-and-others/
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Beginnings: Life on Our World and Others

The first story in a six-part series on NASA's Search for Life takes a close look at the origin of our solar system, and the building blocks of life.
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As our exoplanet total tops 5,438 (and counting!), how do we narrow down the ones most likely to support life? Two NASA rocket teams venture to Australia and look to our nearest stellar neighbors to find out. Follow their journey – series premiere June 27!
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Beginnings: Life on Our World and Others

The first story in a six-part series on NASA's Search for Life takes a close look at the origin of our solar system, and the building blocks of life.
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Understanding life, on Earth or beyond, means going back. Way back. We start at the ignition of stars and their possession and distribution of life’s building blocks, planet formation, and much more, all to answer, 'Are we alone?' http://go.nasa.gov/2374
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If Earth is our model for seeking evidence of life on exoplanets, we must learn to detect biosignatures from a planet that resembles our world. We also must try to recognize life signs on planets that resemble Earth’s very distant past, conditions that enabled life to form.
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5,438!
That's how many planets beyond our solar system we've confirmed. We've found planets with three stars, planets without stars, and planets orbiting the cores of stars. Each one is a wonder. http://Exoplanets.nasa.gov
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Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.
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The closest stars to Earth, aside from our Sun, are part of a triple-star system and can be seen in our night skies. One of those stars, Alpha Centauri A (officially named Rigil Kentaurus), is bigger, brighter and older than our Sun. 🌟 Interactive: https://go.nasa.gov/3MXP83j
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Eyes On Exoplanets – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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“We too are made of wonders, of great and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds, of a need to call out through the dark.”
We're going to Europa – together – next year. #SendYourName on the @EuropaClipper spacecraft: https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/
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Sign Your Name to Europa Clipper's Message in a Bottle

You're invited to #SendYourName to Jupiter's moon Europa by signing a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón that will travel aboard NASA's @EuropaClipper spacecraft
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When @NASAWebb took a look at an ultra-hot Jupiter, it found traces of water and different temperatures at different levels of atmosphere! http://go.nasa.gov/42aAivX
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Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere

Scientists used the Webb Telescope identified water vapor in the atmosphere of WASP-18 b, and made a temperature map of the planet as it slipped behind, and reappeared from, its star.
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Magnetic fields in 30 Doradus — a region at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud — could be the key to its surprising behavior. Magnetic fields, indicated here, may be its secret ingredient to remaining stable despite intense star formation. https://go.nasa.gov/43SBzcm
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Despite Magnetic Fields’ Best Efforts, Star Formation Continues in 30 Doradus – SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

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A gamma-ray burst in 2022 was dubbed the brightest of all time, or BOAT. Most GRBs occur when the core of a star collapses, becoming a black hole. They release as much energy in minutes as our Sun will release in its lifetime. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/brightest-cosmic-explosion-ever-detected-had-other-unique-features
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Brightest Cosmic Explosion Ever Detected Had Other Unique Features

Observations by NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope give astronomers new clues about the brightest and most energetic gamma-ray burst ever detected.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
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GRBs (gamma-ray bursts) produce the highest energy light in the universe from catastrophic star events. A recent burst was nicknamed the BOAT (for brightest of all time), the 7-minute blast may have been the brightest GRB in 10,000 years! https://go.nasa.gov/3X0q3tc
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NASA Looks Back at 50 Years of Gamma-Ray Burst Science

Fifty years ago, on June 1, 1973, astronomers around the world were introduced to a powerful and perplexing new phenomenon called gamma-ray bursts, now seen somewhere in the sky about once a day on average.
Francis Reddy (NASA)
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Kepler-452 b is in some ways, Earth's bigger, older cousin. It was the first planet nearly Earth's size discovered orbiting a Sun-like star. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/5471/kepler-452-b/
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The cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as gamma rays. These beams shine a million trillion times brighter than the Sun for up to 30 seconds! https://go.nasa.gov/45TpaX6
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Gamma Ray Ghouls - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

In the depths of the universe, the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as gamma rays.
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More than 2,700 light-years from Earth, eight planets orbit a star slightly larger than our Sun. This system was found using machine learning; researchers trained computers to look for signs of planets in data from the Kepler Space Telescope. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1476/discovery-of-eight-planets-makes-alien-system-the-first-to-tie-with-our-solar-system/
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Discovery of eight planets makes alien system the first to tie with our solar system

Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth.
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''It is not darkness that unites us,
not the cold distance of space''
Send your name to Europa: https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/
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Sign Your Name to Europa Clipper's Message in a Bottle

You're invited to #SendYourName to Jupiter's moon Europa by signing a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón that will travel aboard NASA's @EuropaClipper spacecraft
NASA's Europa Clipper
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For millions of years after the big bang, the universe was filled with an opaque fog. Within a billion years, the fog cleared and the universe became transparent. @NASAWebb is helping us understand by studying some of the earliest galaxies we've ever seen. https://go.nasa.gov/3qui2k5
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Early Universe Crackled With Bursts of Star Formation, Webb Shows

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question.
Isabelle Yan (NASA)
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Astrophysicists and citizen scientists teamed up to find three possible exoplanets in the last data from the Kepler telescope -- as it was running out of fuel. (Two planets were confirmed.) https://go.nasa.gov/3MEFSkw
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Astronomers Discover Planets in NASA Kepler's Final Days of Observations

A team of astrophysicists and citizen scientists have identified what may be some of the last planets NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope observed during its nearly decade-long mission.
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All the exoplanet locations can be further explored here: http://exoplanets.nasa.gov/travel

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Take a virtual trip with NASA

Book your trip to the imagined surfaces of planets outside our solar system, with NASA's interactive Exoplanet Travel Bureau
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The closest stars to Earth (besides our Sun) are in the Alpha Centauri system, three stars 4 light-years away. Prominent in science fiction, Alpha Centauri B, also known as Toliman, is a prime target to search for Earth-sized planets. Explore the star: https://go.nasa.gov/42mXoiI
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Eyes On Exoplanets – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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