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The flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 2841. Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration 
Battle of the bulges: Have astronomers been wrong about spiral galaxies all this time?
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Where did this tiny ghostly galaxy Segue-1 come from?
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The location of the teeny tiny galaxy Segue-1, which is pretty much too faint to even see in this image, despite being right in the center. Credit: SIMBAD / DSS
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An amateur astronomer has discovered a nearby galaxy!
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The faint galaxy Donatiello I seen in a small telescope (left) shows it near the very bright star Mirach; the same field as the inset box using the 10.4 meter Gran Telescopio Canarias (right). Credit: Martínez-Delgado et al.
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A galaxy torn apart blasts out a six-million-degree scream
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The face-on spiral galaxy is lovely in optical light (blue) but has a very big secret in X-rays (purple). Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Huntingdon Inst. for X-ray Astronomy/G.Garmire, Optical: ESO/VLT
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NGC 5866, an edge-on galaxy, shows off its spectacular dust lane
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Our vantage angle on NGC 5866 emphasizes its spectacular lane of dust, as seen here in this Hubble image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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The Legacy of Hubble: One image, a quarter MILLION galaxies
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May 3, 2019
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Detail of the Hubble Deep Field shown at nearly full resolution.
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Gaia: The sky is littered with undigested galaxies
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Apr 22, 2019
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Stars in some of the stellar streams recently discovered using Gaia data superposed on a map of the galaxy. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
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For the first time, astronomers see the birth of a neutron star binary system
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Apr 15, 2019
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Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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Astronomers spot a massive doughnut of material around quasar Cygnus A’s supermassive black hole
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Apr 3, 2019
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Cygnus A
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Facing the incomprehensible beauty of M 61
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Mar 28, 2019
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The spectacular spiral galaxy M61, observed by the 8.2-meter Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO
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The staggering beauty of galactic collisions
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Mar 12, 2019
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A closer look at the center of NGC 3256 reveals the chaos there, struggling to recover order. Dark dust clouds and bright stars may yet retain their overall spiral distribution. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
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Prelude to galactic catastrophe
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Feb 22, 2019
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NGC 6769 (right) and 6770 (left) are two spiral galaxies on their way to a massive collision. Credit: NASA/ESA/ESO/Judy Schmidt
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T R I A N G U L U M
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Feb 4, 2019
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The core of M33 (center) is the location of a huge cluster of stars born relatively recently — 70 or so million years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B.F. Williams (University of Washington)
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Astronomers accidentally discover a nearby galaxy in a Hubble image!
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Feb 1, 2019
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The tiny and faint dwarf galaxy Bedin I is almost hidden in the background among the much brighter stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752. Note several other far more distant galaxies can be seen, too.
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How is a galaxy like a road-tripping dog?
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Jan 30, 2019
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A close-up of D100 shows the streamer in silhouette, with the dust (along with the gas) leaving the galaxy blocking the light form stars behind it. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Sun (University of Alabama), and W. Cramer and J. Kenney (Yale University)
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Pale, dusty dots
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Jan 11, 2019
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A map of the sky using the far-infrared observatory Herschel; every dot you see in this image is a distant galaxy. Credit: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE; M. W. L. Smith et al 2017
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