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The color of the quasar denotes the dusty universe
According to a team of astronomers, the intergalactic space seems to be filled with fuzzy smoke, tiny dust particles that dim light from distant objects while transformi…
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3 galaxies play gravity-giving game
Located 100 million light-years away at the constellation Piscis Austrinus (Southern Fish), the three galaxies playing for and receiving can lead to a combination of the…
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Efforts to communicate with aliens
Desire to communicate with life on other planets longer than the fondness of UFOs and hope for SETI.
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Black hole flushed from Centaurus A
Scientists take a new look at the Centaurus A galaxy (NGC 5128) when the rays and lobes emanating from the central black hole are recorded by wavelengths of light below…
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Legendary story about the majestic Orion constellation
The brightest constellation that dominates the night sky this week appears in the south around 9 pm (local time).
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Stars form at record speeds in galaxies
When galaxies form, their stars form everywhere at the same time or just concentrate in the tiny central region?
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Fireworks from a gamma ray star
Astronomers use NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope to observe explosions from the rest of a star 30,000 light-years away.
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Stars sparkle through photos
NGC 2264 is located 2,600 light-years from Earth in the faint constellation Unicorn of Monoceros, not far from the familiar Hunter constellation of Orion.
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The central image of the galaxy through the Hubble lens
The multi-colored infrared image of our Milky Way galaxy center shows a new cluster of stars and complex structural details in the ionized gas swirling around the 300 li…
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The light area is beyond the reach of astronomers
Astronomers are still unable to explain a mysterious bright area discovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope for the first time in 2006.
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The four spiral arms of the Milky Way
A research team developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms.
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Finding CO2 on a planet outside the solar system
The Hubble Space Telescope has just discovered CO2 and CO in the atmosphere of a distant planet.
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The two dimest lights in the universe
The object that holds the record for the darkest star-like object in the universe is a twin star
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Nursery star glowing
An image of the APEX telescope reveals how an ionized gas bubble causes surrounding materials to turn into dense blocks, thereby forming new stars.
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Black hole 'burp' out of air bubbles
Like bubble objects in the universe, some black holes also