Staring Deep Into the Cat’s Eye Nebula
Three thousand light years from Earth, the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is a sight that draws in the human eye. In this image from the…
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Super Star Creates a Holiday Light Show
This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of…
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Clues to Determining Age of Binary Star System Provided by Supernova Blast
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determine Circinus X-1 — an X-ray binary — is…
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A Virtual Guide to the Milky Way
This virtual journey shows the different components that make up our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which contains about a hundred billion stars. It starts at…
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Hot Gas Sloshing in a Galactic Cauldron
Galaxies are social beasts that are mostly found in groups or clusters – large assemblies of galaxies that are permeated by even larger amounts of diffuse…
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NASA to Host News Conference on Record-Setting Gamma-Ray Burst
NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 21, to announce new findings about a record-setting gamma-ray burst observed in unprecedented detail…
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ESA’s Planck Mission – Celebrating the Legacy
From the tiniest fraction of a second after the Big Bang to the evolution of stars and galaxies over 13.8 billion years, ESA’s Planck space telescope…
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Most Distant Gravitational Lens Found
An international team of astronomers has found the most distant gravitational lens yet – a galaxy that, as predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity,…
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Hefty Star Spotted in Galactic Bubble
Nestled within the shell around this large bubble is an embryonic star that is already a hefty eight times more massive than our Sun. This…
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Densest Nearby Galaxy May Have Been Found by Hubble and Chandra
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory and telescopes on the ground may have found the most crowded galaxy in our part of…
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