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Here’s What the Universe Looks Like in X-Rays

NASA’s new all-sky map shows what the universe looks like in high-energy x-ray light. Credit: NASA/NICER NASA researchers have unveiled a new treasure map of the universe, and — thanks to a neutron-star-hunting telescope aboard the International Space Station — X-ray marks the spot. The new all-sky map, uploaded May 30 to NASA’s…

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Tiny Cubesats Could Do Big Science at the Moon and Venus

The Lunar Flashlight mission, selected by NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems, is a project from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center. In the mission, a cubesat would use lasers to look for water ice deep in lunar craters. (Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Good things come in small packages: Two…