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Revisiting the Tarantula Nebula to find an old friend
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A small section of a huge image of the Tarantula Nebula, a sprawling star-forming gas cloud in a nearby galaxy. Credit: ESO
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Thanks to a huge black hole, this galaxy grew an extra pair of arms
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The inner disk of the spiral galaxy M 106 shows a pair of “anomalous arms”, actually gas heated by emission from the central black hole. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team). Acknowledgmen
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WHAM! BULLSEYE! Galactic collision creates a ring of black holes and neutron stars
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The ring galaxy AM 0644-071, created when a small compact galaxy plowed through the middle of a spiral galaxy at least tens of millions of years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
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IC 4870, the mystery galaxy
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The dwarf galaxy IC 4870 is lovely in this Hubble image, but more information about it is scarce. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Another Hubble stunner as it paves the way for JWST
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Aug 24, 2018
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The gigantic galaxy cluster RXC J0142.9+4438 contains several hundred galaxies, and was observed by Hubble to study even more distant background galaxies whose light was amplified by the gravity of the cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS
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Hubble goes deep and finds thousands of galaxies assembling when the Universe was young
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Aug 20, 2018
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A deep Hubble image in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light shows thousands of galaxies in the early Universe. This is the northern field of the HDUV survey.
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The last place to look for planets: Omega Centauri
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Aug 14, 2018
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The mighty Omega Centauri, the largest globular cluster orbiting the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: A. Grado, L. Limatola/INAF-Capodimonte Observatory
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Double Hubble Planets
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Aug 1, 2018
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Saturn’s moons, labeled in this Hubble image. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC) and the OPAL Team, and J. DePasquale (STScI)
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Abell 370 and the vermin of the sky
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Jul 5, 2018
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Abell 370 provides a dramatic backdrop for quite a few asteroids, seen as curved tracks in this Hubble image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Sunnquist and J. Mack (STScI) Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI) and the HFF Team
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So, 'Oumuamua is likely a comet after all
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Jun 28, 2018
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‘Oumuamua, the first object ever seen passing through our solar system from interstellar space, is shown in this artwork to be faintly outgassing as the Sun warms its ice. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
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Astronomers watch the aftermath of a star ripped apart by a middleweight black hole
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Jun 27, 2018
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Artwork_blackhole_starArtist’s conception of a star getting eaten by a black hole, with material ripped from the falling down into the black hole and forming a hot disk. Credit: ESA, NASA and Felix Mirabel
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An ancient galaxy hides among the young
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Jun 22, 2018
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NGC 1277 is a galaxy that appears, despite its size, to have remained unchanged since it formed billions of years ago. Almost all the little fuzzies you see in the image are globular clusters.
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A quintet of galaxies that's actually a quartet. Except it's a quintet.
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Jun 14, 2018
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A heavily-stretched contrast image shows galaxies galore, including NGC 7331 (upper center) and Stephan’s Quintet (below center right). Credit: CFHT, Pierre-Alain Duc (Observatoire de Strasbourg) & Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CEA Saclay/Obs. de Paris).
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The spectacular Sunflower Galaxy M63
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Jun 8, 2018
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The inner regions of the nearby spiral galaxy M63 show patchy flocculence all the way into the center. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Hubble + nearby galaxies = galactic gorgeousness
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May 18, 2018
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The nearby spiral galaxy M96, observed by Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
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