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Astronomers Have Found The Most Pristine Star In The Universe. It Likely Came From Another Galaxy.Image showing a stars path from the Large Magelenic Cloud to the Milky Way.

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Astronomers Have Found The Most Pristine Star In The Universe. It Likely Came From Another Galaxy.Image showing a stars path from the Large Magelenic Cloud to the Milky Way.
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Astronomers Have Found The Most Pristine Star In The Universe. It Likely Came From Another Galaxy.

clock-iconApril 7, 2026

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One Of The Largest Known Stars Has Changed Color. Is An Explosion Imminent?An artist's impression of WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, trapped with a partner inside a donut-shaped cloud of dust

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One Of The Largest Known Stars Has Changed Color. Is An Explosion Imminent?An artist's impression of WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, trapped with a partner inside a donut-shaped cloud of dust
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One Of The Largest Known Stars Has Changed Color. Is An Explosion Imminent?

clock-iconFebruary 23, 2026
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First-Ever Detection Of Complex Organic Molecules In Ice Outside Of The Milky WayA large colorful image showing the nebula where stars are being born. There are two inset overalyed one with a view of the full LMC and one with a pixelated views of a single star.

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First-Ever Detection Of Complex Organic Molecules In Ice Outside Of The Milky WayA large colorful image showing the nebula where stars are being born. There are two inset overalyed one with a view of the full LMC and one with a pixelated views of a single star.
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First-Ever Detection Of Complex Organic Molecules In Ice Outside Of The Milky Way

clock-iconNovember 6, 2025
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Good News, The Milky Way May Not Collide With Andromeda In 5 Billion Years After Alla large dark band of celestial dust is visible against the brigher fuzziness of a messy collision goin on behind

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Good News, The Milky Way May Not Collide With Andromeda In 5 Billion Years After Alla large dark band of celestial dust is visible against the brigher fuzziness of a messy collision goin on behind
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Good News, The Milky Way May Not Collide With Andromeda In 5 Billion Years After All

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A Galaxy Is Being Ripped Apart Just Outside The Milky Waythe star are distributed in an L shape. The one along one side have arrows all pointed in one direction while at the corner and on the other side is a bit messy and then pointing in the other.

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A Galaxy Is Being Ripped Apart Just Outside The Milky Waythe star are distributed in an L shape. The one along one side have arrows all pointed in one direction while at the corner and on the other side is a bit messy and then pointing in the other.
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A Galaxy Is Being Ripped Apart Just Outside The Milky Way

clock-iconApril 15, 2025
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Does The Moon Have A Pole Star And Is It The Same As Earth’s?Long exposure of the night sky showing the Large Magellanic Cloud satellite galaxy and thousands of stars, as seen from the Wilsons Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia.

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Does The Moon Have A Pole Star And Is It The Same As Earth’s?Long exposure of the night sky showing the Large Magellanic Cloud satellite galaxy and thousands of stars, as seen from the Wilsons Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia.
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Does The Moon Have A Pole Star And Is It The Same As Earth’s?

clock-iconMarch 14, 2025
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A Black Hole May Be Firing Fast Stars At Us From The Large Magellanic Cloud large magellanic cloud

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A Black Hole May Be Firing Fast Stars At Us From The Large Magellanic Cloud large magellanic cloud
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A Black Hole May Be Firing Fast Stars At Us From The Large Magellanic Cloud

clock-iconFebruary 11, 2025
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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically ChangingA dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]

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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically ChangingA dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]
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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically Changing

clock-iconDecember 31, 2024
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See The First Ever Close-Up Picture Of A Star Outside The Milky WayThe real image shows a thin oval shape and at the center an egg like orange, ther star. The artist impression on the side show the same but provide tghe whispiness of the outer disk of gas and the fuzziness of the super red giant.

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See The First Ever Close-Up Picture Of A Star Outside The Milky WayThe real image shows a thin oval shape and at the center an egg like orange, ther star. The artist impression on the side show the same but provide tghe whispiness of the outer disk of gas and the fuzziness of the super red giant.
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See The First Ever Close-Up Picture Of A Star Outside The Milky Way

clock-iconNovember 21, 2024
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The LMC Just Made A Close Approach To Our Galaxy, And Hubble Saw The AftermathIllustration of how the LMC was observed using quasars.

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The LMC Just Made A Close Approach To Our Galaxy, And Hubble Saw The AftermathIllustration of how the LMC was observed using quasars.
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The LMC Just Made A Close Approach To Our Galaxy, And Hubble Saw The Aftermath

clock-iconNovember 15, 2024
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55 High-Speed Runaway Stars Discovered Escaping From A Single Star ClusterAn image of the tarantula nebula from JWST showing a large hollow center with wispy clouds strands all around it and many points of light. And above it, dwarisn of stars moving away quickly from it.

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55 High-Speed Runaway Stars Discovered Escaping From A Single Star ClusterAn image of the tarantula nebula from JWST showing a large hollow center with wispy clouds strands all around it and many points of light. And above it, dwarisn of stars moving away quickly from it.
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55 High-Speed Runaway Stars Discovered Escaping From A Single Star Cluster

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JWST Spots New Star-Forming Nebula That Looks Like A Painting Of HeavenA bright young star within a colourful nebula. The star is identifiable as the brightest spot in the image, surrounded by six large spokes of light that cross the image. A number of other bright spots can also be seen in the clouds, which are shown in great detail as layers of colourful wisps.

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JWST Spots New Star-Forming Nebula That Looks Like A Painting Of HeavenA bright young star within a colourful nebula. The star is identifiable as the brightest spot in the image, surrounded by six large spokes of light that cross the image. A number of other bright spots can also be seen in the clouds, which are shown in great detail as layers of colourful wisps.
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JWST Spots New Star-Forming Nebula That Looks Like A Painting Of Heaven

clock-iconJanuary 24, 2024
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This Extraordinary Celestial Structure Is The Product Of A Double SupernovaThe entire image is awash in intricate clouds, and swathes of superheated gas. At our upper lefthand corner is a thick, coral pink and wine-colored cloud with a texture resembling cotton candy. At our lower and upper right is a network of deep red clouds that resemble streaks of thick red syrup floating in water. A layer of wispy blue cloud appears to be present across the entire image, but is most evident at our lower left which is free of overlapping gas. Glowing pink, orange, and purple specks of light, which are stars, dot the image. In the center of the frame is a bright purple and pink cloud, aglow with brilliant white dots, and streaked with lightning-like veins. This is 30 Doradus B, which is delineated by a faint shell of X-rays identified by Chandra. Within this supernova remnant are high energy shocks and winds of particles blowing away from a pulsar.

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This Extraordinary Celestial Structure Is The Product Of A Double SupernovaThe entire image is awash in intricate clouds, and swathes of superheated gas. At our upper lefthand corner is a thick, coral pink and wine-colored cloud with a texture resembling cotton candy. At our lower and upper right is a network of deep red clouds that resemble streaks of thick red syrup floating in water. A layer of wispy blue cloud appears to be present across the entire image, but is most evident at our lower left which is free of overlapping gas. Glowing pink, orange, and purple specks of light, which are stars, dot the image. In the center of the frame is a bright purple and pink cloud, aglow with brilliant white dots, and streaked with lightning-like veins. This is 30 Doradus B, which is delineated by a faint shell of X-rays identified by Chandra. Within this supernova remnant are high energy shocks and winds of particles blowing away from a pulsar.
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This Extraordinary Celestial Structure Is The Product Of A Double Supernova

clock-iconJanuary 4, 2024
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Waves 3 Times The Size Of The Sun Break On Enormous “Heartbreak” StarArtist's impression of MACHO 80.7443.1718 where a smaller star raises immense tides that break on the giant star

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Waves 3 Times The Size Of The Sun Break On Enormous “Heartbreak” StarArtist's impression of MACHO 80.7443.1718 where a smaller star raises immense tides that break on the giant star
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Waves 3 Times The Size Of The Sun Break On Enormous “Heartbreak” Star

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Hubble Finds The Shield That Has Saved Nearby Galaxies From DissolvingThe Large Magellanic Cloud is home to the brightest stellar nursery in our cosmic neighborhood, the Tarantula Nebula, as photographed here by Hubble. Image Credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble

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Hubble Finds The Shield That Has Saved Nearby Galaxies From DissolvingThe Large Magellanic Cloud is home to the brightest stellar nursery in our cosmic neighborhood, the Tarantula Nebula, as photographed here by Hubble. Image Credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble
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Hubble Finds The Shield That Has Saved Nearby Galaxies From Dissolving

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