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A composite image of R Aquarii in optical light (red) and X-rays (blue); the jets emit X-rays due to the strong magnetic fields present. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. Montez et al.; Optical: Adam Block/Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter/U. Arizona
The recurrent exploding nova R Aquarii: Unlucky Stars
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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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What is the Milky Way’s most distant globular cluster?
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A Hubble image of PSO J174.0675-10.8774 goes much deeper and has higher resolution than ground-based images, showing more stars. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble and Judy Schmidt
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The Legacy of Hubble: One image, a quarter MILLION galaxies
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Detail of the Hubble Deep Field shown at nearly full resolution.
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Space Jello spotted by Hubble is jiggling around the cosmos
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NASA image of buckyballs
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Hubble gets crabby for its 29th anniversary
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Apr 19, 2019
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The Southern Crab nebula, a huge structure caused by the winds of a dying star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
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Hubble lights up Saturn’s aurorae
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Apr 12, 2019
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An aurora glows in ultraviolet light in this composite image of Saturn taken by Hubble in 2017 and 2018. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, A. Simon (GSFC) and the OPAL Team, J. DePasquale (STScI), L. Lamy (Observatoire de Paris)
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Hubble's view of the globular cluster M2: It's full of (weird) stars
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Apr 9, 2019
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The core of the globular cluster M2 is packed with stars. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.
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Wait. *HOW* fast do giant planets form?
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Apr 4, 2019
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Artwork of a planet forming in a young star’s disk. Credit: NAOJ
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Four different - and spectacular - views into a stellar nursery
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Apr 1, 2019
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In infrared light seen by Spitzer Space Telescope, NGC 1333 shows copious young stars scattered throughout its gas. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. A. Gutermuth (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
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Hubble watches as an asteroid starts to tear itself apart
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Mar 29, 2019
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This Hubble image taken in a single blue filter on February 5, 2019 shows Gault sporting two dust tails, a sure sign that it’s in trouble. Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory)
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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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The imperfect perfection of the star cluster NGC 1898
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Mar 11, 2019
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A close-up of the reddish splotch in the globular cluster NGC 1898. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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What is the mass of the Milky Way?
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Mar 8, 2019
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The most current map of the Milky Way is shown in an artist’s representation. The Sun is directly below the galactic center, near the Orion Spur. The Scutum-Centaurus arms sweeps out to the right and above, going behind the center to the far side.
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A galaxy is blowing enormous megacharged superbubbles of gas and cosmic rays
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Mar 4, 2019
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The galaxy NGC 3079 shows stars seen by Hubble (orange and blue) as well as X-rays (purple) by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Michigan/J-T Li et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
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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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