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Weird dark comet - Rosetta
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The Sagittarius spiral arm
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1E 0657-56, the "bullet cluster."
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Plate tectonics found on Europa
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Planet forming around star about 335 light years from Earth
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Hubble confirmed the existence of an unusually distant galaxy cluster
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A planetary nebula - sun-like star
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A Black Hole Doesn't Die -- It Does Something A Lot Weirder
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Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies
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The star cluster NGC 3590
This colourful new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star cluster NGC 3590. These stars shine brightly in front of a dramatic landscape of dark patches of dust and richly hued clouds of glowing gas
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A Deep Look into a Dark Sky
The survey has already revealed thousands of previously unknown cosmic specimens — over 25 000 galaxies,
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Herbig Be star located about 335 light years from Earth.
HD 100546, also known as KR Muscae, is a so-called Herbig Be star located about 335 light years from Earth.
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Mysterious quasar sequence explained
Quasars are supermassive black holes that live at the center of distant massive galaxies. They shine as the most luminous beacons in the sky across the entire electromagnetic spectrum by rapidly accreting matter into their gravitationally inescapable centers
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Found! First Earth-Size Planet That Could Support Life
The newfound planet, called Kepler-186f, was first spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope and circles a dim red dwarf star about 490 light-years from Earth.
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Dark Matter May Be Destroying Itself in Milky Way’s Core
This Fermi map of the Milky Way center shows an overabundance of gamma-rays (red indicates the greatest number) that cannot be explained by conventional sources.
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The most active star-forming galaxy in the distant universe, nicknamed the "Baby Boom" galaxy
This picture was taken by Hubble. Baby Boom was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble and several other telescopes.
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Monster black hole found in tiny galaxy
Discovery hints at twice as many supermassive black holes in the nearby Universe than previously thought.
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Brian Cox explains quantum mechanics in one minute
Jim Al-Khalili challenges Prof Brian Cox to explain the rules of quantum mechanics as succinctly as possible.
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Sunset from New Zealand
This is my photos of the many colourful sunsets from Rotorua and New Zealand
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Billions of Galaxies are Missing from the Cosmos
By the latest estimate, the observable universe contains 200 billion galaxies. Astronomers wonder: Why so few?
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