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Detect planets that may contain life 100 light-years from Earth
TESS, NASA's 'planetary hunt' program, has found a first habitable exoplanet about the size of Earth, orbiting a star about 100 light-years from us.
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Archeology
The neutron star collision is 520 million light-years from Earth
Astronomers for the second time discovered gravitational waves generated from the intense merger of two neutron stars.
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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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Close-up shot of the galaxy 85 million light-years away
NASA released the latest image of the IC 2051 spiral galaxy in the constellation Son Son taken with the Hubble space telescope.
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The galaxy was discovered 13 billion light-years from Earth
Thanks to the ALMA telescope system in Chile, scientists observed MAMBO-9, a galaxy filled with cosmic dust and creating new stars.
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The galaxy is 600 million light-years from Earth
The origin of Hoag, the galaxy with a special shape, has been a mystery of science for nearly 70 years.
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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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For the first time, science has witnessed galactic winds spanning thousands of light years
Giant galactic winds come from a galaxy called Wind.
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The giant galaxy is 12.5 billion light-years from Earth
The giant galaxy is hidden behind a cloud of dust and gas and has a rate of formation of 100 times more stars than the Milky Way.
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4 galaxy clusters collide 3 billion light-years from Earth
4 clusters of galaxies, each hundreds of trillion times the mass of the Sun, will gradually merge into a giant structure.
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The galaxy is 30 million light-years from Earth
The Hubble Space Telescope captures UGC 695, a weak glowing galaxy located in the constellation Cetus (Kinh Ngu).
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Two collision galaxies are 424 million light-years from Earth
Hubble Space Telescope captures a pair of galaxies that are about to merge to form a new galaxy called UGC 2369.
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Is there a 2nd Earth, only 31 light-years away?
GJ 357 d has a temperature of about 18 degrees Celsius, completing an orbit around its star of 55.7 days.
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Discover 3 extremely rare extrasolar planets only 73 light-years from Earth
We may have discovered thousands of exoplanets, but the system is only 73 light-years away, making scientists extremely excited.
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Hold your breath in front of the magnificent image of the galaxy 30 million light-years away
The Hubble telescope has captured the monumental image of one of the most spectacular scenes in space: a spiral galaxy radiating the radiance of the eternal night of the…