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Deepest galaxy cluster ever pictured
The "deepest ever" image of a group of galaxies - "Pandora's Cluster" - has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Hubble Space Telescope Sees Evidence of Water Vapor Venting off Jupiter Moon
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter's moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon's surface.
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NASA Satellite Captures Brightest Space Explosion Ever Recorded
The monster gamma ray burst happened only a quarter of the universe away, which scientists say makes it one of the best chances to observe a collapsing star ever.
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When Galaxies Collide: The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
Galaxies may look pretty and delicate, with their swirls of stars of many colours – but don’t be fooled. At the heart of every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole, including in our own Milky Way.
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Strange Object Boosts Kuiper Belt Mystery
As we probably all know by now, the Kuiper belt — a populated region of the solar system found just beyond the orbit of Neptune — is a strange place. Once thought to have a population of just one, astronomers have identified thousands of other minor planetary bodies. In fact, it was the accelerated discoveries in the Kuiper belt that ultimately led to the reclassification (or demotion, depending on which way you look at it) of Pluto from “planet” to lowly “dwarf planet.”
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Alien spotting: By 2020, we’ll finally have the ability to locate life-harboring, alien planets
The latest estimate is that there are up to 50 sextillion potentially habitable planets in the universe. Now it’s time to go one step further, though: The scientific community is preparing to launch a bevy of new space telescopes that can peer across the universe and tell us how many of those planets actually harbor life.
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Found: A Strange Lonely Planet without a Star
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only six times that of Jupiter. The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago—a newborn in planet lifetimes.
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Astronomers Create Map of Milky Way's Central Bulge
Two international teams of astronomers have used two telescopes in Chile to produce the best 3D map yet of the central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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