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‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions
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NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice at an unprecedented scale. Covering regions in our Milky Way galaxy more than 600 light-years across, the ice was found…
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Hubble Spies an Active Spiral
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A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation…
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NASA-JAXA’s XRISM Telescope Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82
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For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity at the heart of M82.
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