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Discovered a star that discharges a billion times more energy than the Sun
Scientists discovered a star from a violent eruption of energy in the galaxy NGC 253 13 million light-years away.
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NASA captures 'future image' of Sun exploding and dying
The Hubble Space Telescope - being operated jointly by NASA and ESA - has captured a beautiful nebula 1,370 light-years away.
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The spiral galaxy is 80,000 light-years across
The high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral arms that contain millions of stars from the galaxy NGC 2775.
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Stunning images of the cosmic 'snowflakes' in NASA images
NASA has just released a stunning image of stars from a globular cluster about 13,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Detecting bright galaxies like fireworks in the universe
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) on December 31, 2019 shared photos that reveal the structure and glow of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258.
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The magnetic field around the galaxy is 80,000 light-years wide
The telescope image reveals the magnetic currents above and below NGC 4631, a galaxy 25 million light-years from Earth.
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Christmas tree nebula in the constellation Unicorn
For Christmas, astronomer Jean Dean shares a stunning photograph of the NGC 2264 nebula 2,600 light-years from Earth.
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The two groups of galaxies are 100 trillion times the mass of the Sun
The scientists observed two groups of galaxies rushing at each other at 4.6 million kilometers per hour, preparing to form a large cluster.
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NASA released photos of distant 'glowing' galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope captures a stunning image of the galaxy NGC 3175 more than 50 million light-years away.
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A photo of the galaxy 140 million light-years from Earth
NASA today released a stunning photo of galaxy NGC 5468 recorded by the Hubble space telescope.
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Infrared image of Messier 81 shows off beautifully
NASA has just released a stunning infrared image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of the Messier 81 galaxy, a spiral galaxy located 11.6 million light-years from…
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The Hubble Space Telescope records images of dying stars
The latest image of the planetary nebula NGC 2371/2 released by NASA last week shows the remnants of a dying star.
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Discovering the purple celestial body reveals the future of the Sun.
A giant and strange cosmic jellyfish was discovered by the Hubble space telescope, which according to NASA is the brilliant end of an old sun-like star.
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NASA's Spitzer telescope spotted a new galaxy
Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered galaxy NGC 5866 about 60,000 light-years in diameter - more than half the diameter of the Milky Way where people live.
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Cherry blossom galaxies flourish, glowing mysterious pink light
A series of glowing objects with cherry blossoms in full bloom in the galaxy NGC 1156 of the Aries constellation is a trace of nursery nurseries.