A New View of the Orion Nebula
This new view of the Orion A star-formation cloud from ESA’s Herschel space observatory shows the turbulent region of space that hugs the famous Orion Nebula.…
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Source of Magellanic Stream Identified by Hubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway…
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Galaxy Evolution Puzzle Cracked With the Help of the Hubble Space Telescope
New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack a longstanding puzzle about galaxy evolution. For years, scientists have wondered why galaxies that have…
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Black Hole Sleeps in Nearby Sculptor Galaxy
Nearly a decade ago, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the…
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New Stars Bloom in Milky Way’s More Barren Territories
Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons have been spotted in images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. New views from NASA’s Spitzer Space…
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Mega Galaxy Merger Spotted by Herschel Space Telescope
A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important…
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Herschel Space Telescope Ceases Operation After Coolant Runs Out
The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant…
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Galaxy Evolution Theory Challenged by Star Formation in Distant Galaxy
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time…
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Star Clusters on a Collision Course Caught by Hubble
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The…
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Flame Nebula Burns Brightly in New WISE Image
A new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust. The Flame nebula is…
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