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  Science   28 Jun 2018

Science, 28 Jun 2018

- This artist’s rendering provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the interstellar object named “Oumuamua” which was discovered on Oct. 19, 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. In the Wednesday, June 27, 2018 edition of the journal Nature, a European-led team makes the case it is a comet, not an asteroid. (Photo: AP)

Comet or asteroid? Scientists ID interstellar visitor

Telescopes first spotted the mysterious red-tinged object last October as it zipped through the inner solar system.

28 Jun 2018 8:52 AM

This 2015 artist’s rendering provided by Northrop Grumman via NASA shows the James Webb Space Telescope. On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, NASA announced that the next-generation telescope will now fly no earlier than 2021 and its lifetime cost is now expected to reach nearly $10 billion. (Photo:AP)

More delay, a cost for NASA’s next-generation space telescope

For the third time in less than a year, the space agency announced a lengthy postponement for the James Webb Space Telescope.

28 Jun 2018 8:23 AM


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