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The Euclid Space Telescope Has Found 31 New Ancient Quasars, Including the Most Ancient One Ever Found

Reported by Universe Today

Euclid is only 1.5 years into its Euclid Wide Survey and has found 31 new quasars from the Universe's first 800 million years. Though the Survey isn't specifically aimed at finding ancient quasars, it's proving to be remarkably effective at it. This large ...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:17 +0000

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Hibernation in Good Health

Reported by NASA

Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:48 +0000

Galaxy Mergers Aren't Always Obvious

Reported by Universe Today

Mergers are a part of a galaxy's life in this Universe. Though clear signs of these mergers fade over hundreds of millions of years, evidence is still present, yet obscured, in the galaxies that experience them. The powerful JWST has made it possible to fi...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:24 +0000

Artemis II Crew and Apollo 14 Moon Tree

Reported by NASA

In this photograph, the Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on June 25, 2026. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the loblolly pine spec...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:16 +0000

Astronomers Using Chandra Data Produce the Most Detailed View of the M87 Jet in X-rays

Reported by Universe Today

Combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with advanced image-processing techniques to produce the sharpest X-ray view yet of the relativistic jet from M87's supermassive black hole....
  • By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
  • On: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:11 +0000

July 2026 Satellite Puzzler

Reported by NASA

Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:48 +0000