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April 24 — This week, we're celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday with some stunning images. Plus, astronomers examine claims that a compound detected on an exomoon means life. All that and more below. Enjoy! —Andrea Gawrylewski, Chief Newsletter Editor

Top Stories

Slashing NASA's Programs Will Squander America's Place in Space The Trump administration's plans to cut NASA's science missions will destroy the U.S. space legacy Louis Friedman

Is Dimethyl Sulfide Really a Sign of Alien Life? Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18 b Meghan Bartels

Celebrate Hubble Space Telescope's 35th Birthday with Stunning Images Happy anniversary to the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched on April 24, 1990 Meghan Bartels

Quantum Randomness Could Create a Spoof-Proof Internet Quantinuum's 56-bit trapped-ion computer has succeeded in demonstrating randomness in quantum circuits to establish secure, private connections Gayoung Lee, Lee Billings

NASA's Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nadia Drake

Strange Circles in the Sky Are Still Baffling Astronomers ORCs—odd radio circles—are one of the weirdest recent discoveries in the heavens above Phil Plait

Why Astronomers Are Not Sold on New Alien Life Claims NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, but scientists are divided about what the chemical means Alexandra Witze, Nature magazine

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What We're Reading

A rare glimpse of Mars's small moon Deimos. | Ars Technica Astronomers discover a dark matter bridge connecting two colliding galaxies. | Space.com An experiment to test the viability of growing food in space launched this week. | BBC

From the Archive

How Superman Helped Launch the Hubble Space Telescope Long before it orbited Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope starred in a famous Superman comic Paul Cornish

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