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Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other – It’s The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moonthe asteroid looks like a bulbous arch from this vantage point

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Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other – It’s The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moonthe asteroid looks like a bulbous arch from this vantage point
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Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other – It’s The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moon

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Betel-Buddy, Betelgeuse’s Long-Suspected Companion, Is Real And Surprisingly LargeBetelgeuse B (left) struggles to stand out against the light of the supergiant star (center), both shown against their place in the sky

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Betel-Buddy, Betelgeuse’s Long-Suspected Companion, Is Real And Surprisingly LargeBetelgeuse B (left) struggles to stand out against the light of the supergiant star (center), both shown against their place in the sky
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Betel-Buddy, Betelgeuse’s Long-Suspected Companion, Is Real And Surprisingly Large

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Newly Discovered Exoplanet Is The Faintest Ever Directly Imaged From Earth – And Has A Whopping 91-Year OrbitA grainy image show a bright round source a and a much fainter fuzzy one on the opposite side of a covered star

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Newly Discovered Exoplanet Is The Faintest Ever Directly Imaged From Earth – And Has A Whopping 91-Year OrbitA grainy image show a bright round source a and a much fainter fuzzy one on the opposite side of a covered star
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Newly Discovered Exoplanet Is The Faintest Ever Directly Imaged From Earth – And Has A Whopping 91-Year Orbit

clock-iconJuly 15, 2026
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Lasers Shot Towards Tarantula Nebula In Next-Door Galaxy Are A Crucial Way To Improve Observationsa photo of the tarantula nebula and for laser beams shooting into the sky towards it.

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Lasers Shot Towards Tarantula Nebula In Next-Door Galaxy Are A Crucial Way To Improve Observationsa photo of the tarantula nebula and for laser beams shooting into the sky towards it.
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Lasers Shot Towards Tarantula Nebula In Next-Door Galaxy Are A Crucial Way To Improve Observations

clock-iconMay 6, 2026

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Earliest Detailed Observations Of A Star Exploding Show True Shape Of A Supernovathe artist's impression show a flat disk of material and at its center an explosion stretching above and below the disk in the shape of a rugby ball.

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Earliest Detailed Observations Of A Star Exploding Show True Shape Of A Supernovathe artist's impression show a flat disk of material and at its center an explosion stretching above and below the disk in the shape of a rugby ball.
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Earliest Detailed Observations Of A Star Exploding Show True Shape Of A Supernova

clock-iconNovember 18, 2025
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Incredible Supernova Finding Shows That “Double-Detonation Mechanism” Happens In Naturetwo concentric rings one orange and one blue are visible in this image. The background is balck with many stars.

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Incredible Supernova Finding Shows That “Double-Detonation Mechanism” Happens In Naturetwo concentric rings one orange and one blue are visible in this image. The background is balck with many stars.
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Incredible Supernova Finding Shows That “Double-Detonation Mechanism” Happens In Nature

clock-iconJuly 2, 2025
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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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Incredible Photos Capture Star Systems Giving Birth To Planets In A Variety Of Waysselection of 10 protoplanetary disks of different shapes

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Incredible Photos Capture Star Systems Giving Birth To Planets In A Variety Of Waysselection of 10 protoplanetary disks of different shapes
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Incredible Photos Capture Star Systems Giving Birth To Planets In A Variety Of Ways

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1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Of The Running Chicken Nebula Is AstoundingThe Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site. This 1.5-billion pixel image spans an area in the sky of about 25 full Moons. The clouds shown in wispy pink plumes are full of gas and dust, illuminated by the young and hot stars within them.

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1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Of The Running Chicken Nebula Is AstoundingThe Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site. This 1.5-billion pixel image spans an area in the sky of about 25 full Moons. The clouds shown in wispy pink plumes are full of gas and dust, illuminated by the young and hot stars within them.
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1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Of The Running Chicken Nebula Is Astounding

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Dark And Bright Spots Seen On Neptune From Earth For The First TimeThis image shows Neptune observed with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). At each pixel within Neptune, MUSE splits the incoming light into its constituent colours or wavelengths. This is similar to obtaining images at thousands of different wavelengths all at once, which provides a wealth of valuable information to astronomers.

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Dark And Bright Spots Seen On Neptune From Earth For The First TimeThis image shows Neptune observed with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). At each pixel within Neptune, MUSE splits the incoming light into its constituent colours or wavelengths. This is similar to obtaining images at thousands of different wavelengths all at once, which provides a wealth of valuable information to astronomers.
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Dark And Bright Spots Seen On Neptune From Earth For The First Time

clock-iconSeptember 5, 2023
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Remains Of The First-Ever Supernovae In The Universe Finally SpottedThis diagram illustrates how astronomers can analyse the chemical composition of distant clouds of gas using the light of a background object like a quasar as a beacon. When the light of the quasar passes through the gas cloud, the chemical elements in it absorb different colours or wavelengths, leaving dark lines in the spectrum of the quasar. Each element leaves a different set of lines, so by studying the spectrum astronomers can work out the chemical composition of the intervening gas cloud.

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Remains Of The First-Ever Supernovae In The Universe Finally SpottedThis diagram illustrates how astronomers can analyse the chemical composition of distant clouds of gas using the light of a background object like a quasar as a beacon. When the light of the quasar passes through the gas cloud, the chemical elements in it absorb different colours or wavelengths, leaving dark lines in the spectrum of the quasar. Each element leaves a different set of lines, so by studying the spectrum astronomers can work out the chemical composition of the intervening gas cloud.
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Remains Of The First-Ever Supernovae In The Universe Finally Spotted

clock-iconMay 3, 2023
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New Record Set For Heaviest Element Found On An ExoplanetAn extremely bright star is glowing so much a planet is not clearly visible in its glare

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New Record Set For Heaviest Element Found On An ExoplanetAn extremely bright star is glowing so much a planet is not clearly visible in its glare
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New Record Set For Heaviest Element Found On An Exoplanet

clock-iconApril 20, 2023
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One Of Our Galaxy’s Oldest Stars Has An Unexpected CompanionThe first stars formed before there even was a galaxy, and SMSS1605-1433 formed soon after, when the Milky Way had barely begun.

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One Of Our Galaxy’s Oldest Stars Has An Unexpected CompanionThe first stars formed before there even was a galaxy, and SMSS1605-1433 formed soon after, when the Milky Way had barely begun.
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One Of Our Galaxy’s Oldest Stars Has An Unexpected Companion

clock-iconJanuary 11, 2023
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Check Out This Spectacular Image Of A Brand-New Baby Planetarticle image

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Check Out This Spectacular Image Of A Brand-New Baby Planetarticle image
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Check Out This Spectacular Image Of A Brand-New Baby Planet

clock-iconJuly 2, 2018

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Astronomers Catch A Baby Planet Being Bornarticle image

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Astronomers Catch A Baby Planet Being Bornarticle image
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Astronomers Catch A Baby Planet Being Born

clock-iconMay 9, 2018