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Hubble image of the unusual comet P/2019 LD2, which is currently orbiting the Sun near Jupiter, but will soon be ejected from the solar system. Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Bolin (Caltech)
A comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter but will eventually get flung into interstellar space
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Hubble's half-dozen cosmic train wrecks
Phil Plait
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.
Phil Plait
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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A baby star stabs through the heart of Orion
Phil Plait
Jan 7, 2021
A very young star in Orion announces its birth by blasting out twin beams of matter, creating the object HH 24.
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Memories of the Blue Snowball
Phil Plait
Dec 25, 2020
Hubble’s view of the planetary nebula NGC 7662. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Hajian (University of Waterloo)
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It's official! Astronomers confirm GN-z11 is the most distant galaxy ever seen
Jeff Spry
Dec 18, 2020
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Defying death, a monster storm on Neptune makes a U-turn
Phil Plait
Dec 17, 2020
A Hubble image taken in January 2020 shows a large dark spot on Neptune and a smaller one that may have spun off of it. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and L.A. Sromovsky and P.M. Fry (University of Wisconsin-Ma
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Does Planet Nine exist? An alien world 300 light years away gives hope
Phil Plait
Dec 11, 2020
Artwork showing the super-Jupiter exoplanet HD 106906 b, orbiting over 100 billion km from its binary star host. A disk of planet-forming material surrounds the stars, indicating their young age. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
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You think *you're* isolated today? Meet the galaxy MCG+01-02-015
Phil Plait
Nov 26, 2020
The galaxy MCG+01-02-015, a lovely spiral that happens to sit in a very empty region of the Universe. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Gorin (STScI) and Judy Schmidt
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The tweet that led to a science paper about galactic crepuscular rays
Phil Plait
Nov 23, 2020
IC 5063 is an active galaxy where shadows tens of thousands of light years long are being cast from the center. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and W. P . Maksym (CfA)
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Did astronomers just witness the explosive birth of a magnetar?
Phil Plait
Nov 12, 2020
Artwork showing the birth of a magnetar, a neutron star with a fiercely strong magnetic field, with the field lines depicted. If it forms from two neutron stars merging, twin beams of material get blasted away as well. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player
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Elect to take a respite from the day with a spectacular face-on spiral galaxy
Phil Plait
Nov 3, 2020
NGC 3147, a face-on spiral galaxy seen by Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.
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Amazing video: Hubble watches as a catastrophic stellar explosion fades
Phil Plait
Oct 6, 2020
Supernova SN2018gv (the very bright “star” on the left) in the galaxy NGC 2525, seen using Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess and the SH0ES team. Acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani
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Hubble sees Jupiter erupt with storms big enough to swallow Earth
Phil Plait
Sep 18, 2020
Jupiter (and its moon Europa to the upper left) captured by Hubble in visible light on 25 August 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team
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What's the matter with dark matter? Observations show we're missing something.
Phil Plait
Sep 11, 2020
The galaxy cluster S1063 is a collection of hundreds of galaxies and is strewn with dark matter. This acts as a gravitational lens, distorting the light form more distant galaxies into arcs, which you can see throughout the center of this Hubble image.
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The Orion Nebula like you've never seen it before
Phil Plait
Aug 21, 2020
The mighty Orion Nebula, seen in near-infrared light so that astronomers could look for sub-stellar objects. Credit: NASA/ESA/Massimo Robberto/Judy Schmidt
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