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An ancient remnant of a galactic collision encircles the Sombrero Galaxy
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How are stars born? Absolutely gorgeously. See for yourself.
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When the Universe makes no sense, look at a pretty galaxy
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The spiral galaxy NGC 3254, seen by Hubble in 2019. Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; CC BY 4.0
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The motions of 66 nearby galaxies have now been reliably measured. Not stars. *Galaxies*.
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The magnificent Andromeda Galaxy along with its companion M32 (upper left of center). Credit: Local Group Survey Team and T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)
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What happened to this galaxy’s dark matter?
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Jun 21, 2021
The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, seen here using Hubble, apparently has little or no dark matter. It’s not clear how this happened. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS) Image processing: Aly
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NGC 4394: A gorgeous galaxy with a built-in bar
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Jun 11, 2021
Detail of the bar and core of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4394. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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The first lone neutron star ever seen outside the Milky Way
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Jun 7, 2021
The supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219 seen by three telescopes: The red background (note the stars) from Hubble, the Very Large Telescope in green, and X-rays seen by Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and purple.
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When two galaxies love each other very much…
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Jun 2, 2021
Arp 256N in more detail. Note the tidal tails and bright blue spots indicating star formation sites. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
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A moment of the Universe
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May 24, 2021
A foreground star (upper left) betrays its nature via diffraction spikes, an optical effect when a point source of light passes through a telescope.
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A fleet of telescopes on and above Earth zooms in on M87’s enormous black hole
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Apr 16, 2021
The elliptical galaxy M87 has a supermassive black hole in its heart (far too small to be seen in this Hubble image).
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What tossed a supermassive black hole around in the center of a distant galaxy?
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Mar 16, 2021
Black hole with accretion disk and jets
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The Universe is acting funny. Or we’re looking at it wrong.
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Mar 10, 2021
The elliptical galaxy IC 2006, which lies about 65 million light years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Image acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt and J. Blakeslee (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory). Note that the image is not related to science release
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Staring down the throat of an ancient, *extremely* distant black hole
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Feb 23, 2021
Artist drawing of a blazar, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole spewing out energy. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
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A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky
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Feb 8, 2021
A small group of galaxies called the Copeland Septet, seen in the DESI Legacy Sky Surveys. Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE & KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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Hubble's half-dozen cosmic train wrecks
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Jan 22, 2021
NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding spiral galaxies, part of a survey to look at star clusters that form in the aftermath. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Adamo et al.
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How do you find when a supernova blew? Run the clock backwards.
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Jan 18, 2021
The supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219, seen by Hubble Space Telescope. Careful measurements of the expanding debris over time has indicated the star blew up 1738 (±175) years ago. Gas colored blue is moving toward Earth, gas colored red moving away.
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