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5 dazzling interstellar images to celebrate Hubble’s 35th birthday
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...
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Gorgeous deep space photo captures the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by glowing gas
Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...
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Astronomers discover dark matter 'bridge' linking colliding galaxies: 'This is the missing piece we've been looking for.'
"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...
Astronomers Reveal Secrets of the Universe's Awkward Growth Spurt
A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...