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NASA's October 7 release pairs 800GB of Artemis II data — 11,000+ images and 5 faint lunar impact flashes spotted near closest approach — with the actual lunar surface and flyby distance.
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NASA Publishes 800GB of Artemis II Moon Data, Including Five Faint Impact Flashes

NASA has archived more than 800 gigabytes from the Artemis II lunar flyby, including crew accounts of five faint impact flashes, in a relea…

EduFabTech · 22h ago · 4 min read
A schematic coronagraph mask blocks a target star's glare in the Large Magellanic Cloud, next to the key numbers from Roman's September 22 first-light test.
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NASA's Roman Telescope Coronagraph Captures Its First In-Space Starlight

NASA announced on September 30, 2026, that the Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph Instrument captured its first in-orbit starlight on Sept…

EduFabTech · 5d ago · 4 min read
A star-field graphic ranks Webb's newly confirmed IC 348 brown dwarfs by size, highlighting the faintest at just 2 Jupiter masses and its new "Class H" spectral tag.
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Webb's Deepest Look at IC 348 Finds Brown Dwarfs Down to 2 Jupiter Masses and a New Spectral Class

A September 15, 2026 JWST image release from STScI anchors two 2026 papers describing brown dwarfs as small as 2 Jupiter masses in the youn…

EduFabTech · 22 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
A schematic of the Elias 2-24 protoplanetary disk showing the newly confirmed planet forming in a gap 54.9 AU from its star, with its age, orbit and estimated mass.
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Astronomers Confirm the Youngest Known Exoplanet, a Jupiter-Mass World Still Forming at 55 AU

Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b, a Jupiter-mass planet under one million years old still gathering material at 55 AU from its star …

EduFabTech · 19 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A Desert Moss Was Revived in Orbit, and a New Paper Documents How
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A Desert Moss Was Revived in Orbit, and a New Paper Documents How

A study published September 2, 2026 in Space Habitation reports that the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis was resuscitated after flying ab…

EduFabTech · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
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Hubble Detects a New Ten-Sided Atmospheric Wave Circling Saturn's South Pole

A paper in Science Advances documents a ten-sided atmospheric wave, a decagon, circling Saturn's south pole inside a fast jet stream — the …

EduFabTech · 12 Sep 2026 · 4 min read