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Halo of the Cats Eye
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky
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From the Northern to the Southern Cross
There is a road that connects the Northern to the Southern Cross but you have to be at the right place and time to see it.
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Spiral Galaxies in Collision
Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart.
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NASA scientists find star as cold as the Arctic
If Earth orbited WISE J085510.83-071442.5, a nearby star newly discovered by NASA scientists, there would likely be no such thing as a bathing suit or short shorts. That's because this "brown dwarf" - a star too small to enable nuclear fusion and radiate light - is as cold as the Arctic.
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Cosmic 'magnifying glass' helps scientists see something really, really, really far away
Thanks to a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, astronomers have spotted what might be the most distant object known to science, a distant galaxy cluster called IRC 0218.
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Milky Way Punier Than We Thought
Looks like our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has gone on the ultimate weight-loss program, according to astronomers. According to a new supercomputer simulation, it turns out that the entire mass of our Milky Way galaxy is about half that of the great Andromeda galaxy, our nearest neighbouring spiral galaxy some 2.6 million light-years away from us. Astronomers had long thought the galaxies were twins.
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Quantum Experiment Shows How Time ‘Emerges’ from Entanglement
Time is an emergent phenomenon that is a side effect of quantum entanglement, say physicists. And they have the first experimental results to prove it
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It’s okay. Nothing really matters. We don’t actually exist, anyway. Or so the Higgs Boson...
IT took $10 billion, the world’s largest particle accelerator and decades of research, but now scientists are convinced: The universe doesn’t exist.
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Hubble telescope's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula
According to modern astronomers, the Orion Nebula is an enormous cloud of gas and dust, one of many in our Milky Way galaxy. It lies roughly 1,300 light-years from Earth. At some 30 to 40 light-years in diameter, this great big nebulous cocoon is giving birth to perhaps a thousand stars. Much more info at the source!