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A spiral galaxy with a bright-white core, a glowing disk thick with swirling patterns of dark dust, and a faint halo around the disk. It is on a black background with a few small, distant galaxies and some foreground stars around it.

Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the…

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How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic Dawn

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Today, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the case. During its infancy, the universe was…

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NASA, JAXA XRISM Spots Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Active Galaxy

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After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the…

Article4 months ago

X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover’ in a New Light

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Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the…

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Close-up view of Resolve’s detector

NASA/JAXA’s XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels

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At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led…

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A glowing pink point of light with diffraction spikes is surrounded by dark dust and faint stars. Two yellowish points of light are visible above and below it, all against black space dotted with intermittent distant galaxies.

Hubble Glimpses a Bright Galaxy Group

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This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a group of interacting galaxies known as LEDA 60847. LEDA 60847 is…

Article8 months ago