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Photo of a beautiful stellar nursery 522 light-years away
The Hubble Space Telescope provides a stunning updated image of the Chamaeleon Cloud 1 in the Southern Hemisphere sky.
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Earth falls into a 'bubble of nothingness' 1,000 light-years wide
The Earth, and the whole solar system, is strangely suspended in the middle of empty space, according to research led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysic…
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Photo of the 'flame nebula' more than 1,300 light-years away
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning update of the nebula NGC 2024 in the constellation Orion.
Space science
Detecting Maggie - a 3,900 light-year long ghost crossing the galaxy containing Earth
Maggie is a mysterious, unknown, and one of the largest filamentous structures ever observed in a galaxy containing the Earth's Milky Way.
Space science
Hubble has discovered a 'mysterious golden dragon' 4 billion light-years away, spanning 5 galaxies!
Dragon is a mystical animal in ancient Chinese mythology, it can fly through clouds and fog, however the golden dragon we are referring to is not this type, instead it i…
Alien
Discovered 'giant world' 325 light years from Earth
If placed next to the Solar System, everything in the newly discovered alien world will look like mythical giants, defying the principles of planet formation.
1001 mystery
The lamp that lights up for 1,500 years without going out and the mysterious energy source in the tomb
When excavating a tomb in Rome, it was discovered that a 1,500-year-old lamp did not turn off. So what is the mystery behind?
Space science
Bad news about 'alien signal' from 4.2 light years from Earth
Scientists have just given the final answer to the signal that stirred astronomers in 2019 from the Proxima Centauri star system, which has a planet thought to be habita…
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Detects the existence of water in a galaxy 12.8 billion light years from Earth
Scientists say they have discovered evidence of water in a galaxy about 12.8 billion light-years from Earth.
Space science
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.
Space science
The 'fire circle' was discovered 11 billion light-years from Earth
In the data of more than 4,000 detected galaxies, R5519 emits strong light and has the clearest ring structure.
Space science
'Super Earth' discovered 25,000 light-years away
The newly discovered exoplanet has four times the mass of the Earth, orbiting the star as small as 1/10 of the Sun.
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The Milky Way may be 1.9 million light-years wide
By finding the edge of the Milky Way, scientists can more accurately calculate its mass and the number of small galaxies surrounding it.
Space science
The discovery of a new black hole 30,000 light-years from Earth
NASA accidentally captured an X-ray burst, a phenomenon that occurs when black holes suck matter from stars in the constellation Columba.
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With the power of modern technology, how long will it take to reach the planet a light-year away?
I've seen people succeed hundreds of times ... in movies. What about in real life?