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Leah Crane is the physics and space reporter at ��è��Ƶ

Leah Crane

Physics and space reporter

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Leah Crane is a Senior Reporter at ��è��Ƶ, covering topics ranging from private space flight and cosmology to quantum mechanics. She is based in Chicago. Before joining ��è��Ƶ in 2016, her work was published at SpaceNews, Eos, Smithsonian and Symmetry Magazine. She writes ��è��Ƶ's space newsletter, Launchpad.

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Return to the moon: Why are we restarting human lunar exploration now?

Space

Return to the moon: Why are we restarting human lunar exploration now?

Features

This artist's concept shows an auroral display on a brown dwarf. If you could see an aurora on a brown dwarf, it would be a million times brighter than an aurora on Earth.

Space

Weird ‘failed star’ seen blasting off its outer layers for first time

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An image of the Orion nebula taken by JWST

Space

JWST has caught hot stars destroying gas and dust in the Orion Nebula

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Artist’s impression of a BEASTie. The image shows a gas giant planet (like Jupiter) on a distant orbit around a blue, massive star. The planet is likely to have been captured or stolen from another star. The background stars are members of the same star-forming region and could be the star the BEASTie was born around.

Space

Weird, enormous planets may be stolen from stars in 'planetary heists'

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In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb?s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. The most active region appears to sparkle with massive young stars, appearing pale blue. Scattered among them are still-embedded stars, appearing red, yet to emerge from the dusty cocoon of the nebula. NIRCam is able to detect these dust-enshrouded stars thanks to its unprecedented resolution at near-infrared wavelengths.

Space

JWST's dazzling nebula image shows stars we have never seen before

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Physics

Blasting plastic with powerful lasers turns it into tiny diamonds

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NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA's Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency's deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Aug. 29 at 8:33 a.m. ET. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Space

Risk for Orion is even higher than for SLS, says NASA official

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NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Space

Artemis I: NASA has missed the first launch window for its SLS rocket

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SLS is ready for launch

Space

Artemis I livestream: Watch NASA's historic SLS rocket launch

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

Space

JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft on top at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Space

NASA is finally ready to launch the huge SLS rocket for the first time

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Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters ? F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) ? and alignment due to the planet's rotation.

Space

JWST has taken even more beautiful images of Jupiter and its aurora

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