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Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls Into View – Dark Energy Camera Captures Celestial Phenomena
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter…
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Webb Space Telescope Nearly Set to Explore the Solar System
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble…
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: James Webb Space Telescope
In addition to looking at distant stars, galaxies, and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar…
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Astronomers Find “Gold Standard” Star in Milky Way With the Widest Range of Elements
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey…
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Mystery of Universe’s Expansion Rate: Hubble Data Shows That “Something Weird” Is Going On
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we…
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Hiding in Plain Sight Behind Piercingly Blue Stars
Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster Liller 1. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro The subdued red tones of…
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Hubble Captures a Peculiar Galactic Pair
Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, a pair of spiral galaxies located about 800 million light-years away. Credit: NASA,…
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New Targets in Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Planets of Binary Stars As Homes for Alien Life
Simulation of binary star. Credit: From the scientific article by Jørgensen, Kuruwita et al. Nearly half of Sun-like stars are…
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Hubble Space Telescope Peers Through Giant Elliptical Galaxy’s Layers
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 474, a gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474 located about 100 million light-years from Earth.…
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