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Roman Telescope Accelerated, 6,000 Exoplanets & Webb's Impossible Atmosphere
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Space news hits hard today: NASA pulls the Roman Space Telescope nine months closer to launch, the confirmed exoplanet catalog breaks 6,000, and Webb detects an atmosphere that shouldn't exist. Five stories that move the needle on our understanding of the cosmos.
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NASA has moved the Roman Space Telescope's launch forward by nine months. The new target is September two thousand twenty-six, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center.
On the exoplanet front, NASA's confirmed catalog has crossed six thousand worlds. The number itself is less interesting than what's in it.
The Webb Space Telescope finding that's generating the most scientific friction right now involves a planet called TOI-561 b. It's a super-Earth so close to its star that it completes an orbit in just ten and a half hours.
A meteorite that crashed through a roof in Hillsborough, New Jersey is now providing a more grounded kind of evidence about life's ingredients. Analysis published in early August confirmed it contains amino acids, diverse organic compounds, and salty brines, chemistry preserved from a primitive asteroid.
Glass fragments found in South Australia have been traced back to an asteroid impact eleven million years old. No crater has been found.
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