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The world's most powerful space telescope. Launched: Dec. 25, 2021. First images revealed: July 12, 2022. Verification:

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NASA Webb Telescope
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Horsehead Nebula: Yeigh or Neigh? 🐴 The Horsehead Nebula is famously known for…looking like a horse’s head. Webb captured the top of the "horse's mane," giving us the sharpest infrared images of the region to date:
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NASA Webb Telescope
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Happy birthday to our space bestie @NASAHubble ! Enjoy their 34th anniversary image below:
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Hubble
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Hubble's 34th launch anniversary is this week! 🥳 We're celebrating with this new image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Located about 3,400 light-years away, this nebula formed when lobes of gas expanded out from a dying star at the center. For more:
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NASA Webb Telescope
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Happy #EarthDay ! There’s no place like our home planet: still the only place we know of with life. That’s why researchers have used observations of Earth to better understand how the atmospheres of habitable, Earth-sized exoplanets might look to Webb:
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NASA Earth
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#EarthDay is almost here! But first… let’s take a selfie. 🌎🤳 Celebrate with us by sharing a photo of you in your favorite part of this watery world and tag it with #GlobalSelfie .
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@NASAExoplanets
NASA Exoplanets
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#OTD in 2018, @NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to search for new worlds. So far, it’s discovered 432 planets and 7,138 planet candidates! Here are some of the wondrous worlds.🧵⬇️
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NASA Webb Telescope
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What might it be like to witness our cosmic beginnings? @CarnegieScience astronomer emeritus Alan Dressler takes us through the origins of the Webb Telescope and how it is peering back through time and space to see the first stars and galaxies:
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@NASAWebb
NASA Webb Telescope
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Are you a wordsmith? It's #NationalHaikuDay ! Send us your best work 💛 If you're inspired by Webb's science and engineering, send us your poem (haiku or not) at GSFC-NASAWebb @mail .nasa.gov. Not sure where to start? Dive into our treasury of images:
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