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The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, is a ground-based instrument connecting two 8-meter class...
The false-color composite image of the Stephan’s Quintet galaxy cluster is made up of data from NASA Spitzer Space...
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The IRTF is a venerable 30-year-old, 3-meter-diameter...
This image incorporates the best data on dimples and bulges of the protoplanet Vesta from ground-based telescopes...
This image shows NASAS Dawn scientists best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look...
This artist concept, based on data from NASA Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes, depicts an itsy bitsy...
Using powerful ground-and space-based NASA telescopes, scientists have obtained a moving look at some of the...
For the first time, two space-based telescopes have teamed up with ground-based observatories to observe a...
Astronomers have discovered nearly 300 galaxy clusters and groups, including almost 100 located 8 to 10 billion...
Astronomers using data from NASA Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes recently discovered the three smallest...
New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen...
This image composite shows two views of a puffy, dying star, or planetary nebula, known as NGC 1514. At left is a...
This image shows the scientists best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like from...
This radar image of asteroid 1999 RQ36 was obtained NASA Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. on Sept 23,...
The collection of red dots seen here show one of several very distant galaxy clusters discovered by combining...
This artist's concept appeared on the Feb. 23, 2017 cover of the journal Nature announcing that the TRAPPIST-1 star,...
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer specializes in surveying galaxies in ultraviolet light. Its telescope, 50 centimeters...
This frame from a video details a system of seven planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf star. Spitzer was...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers add another base plate segment to the shrouded Space Infrared Telescope...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers add another base plate segment to the shrouded Space Infrared Telescope...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker carries a base plate segment to the shrouded Space Infrared Telescope...
This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional,...
This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods,...
Scientists using NASA’s telescope on an airplane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, discovered...