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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
You think *you're* isolated today? Meet the galaxy MCG+01-02-015
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The tweet that led to a science paper about galactic crepuscular rays
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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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The *entire* sky glows from the light of distant hydrogen. All of it, everywhere.
Phil Plait
Aug 20, 2020
A section of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field showing hundreds of galaxies, with the MUSE observations of hydrogen glow superposed (blue). The glow is everywhere, coming from hydrogen gas in the distant Universe. ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO/ Lutz Wisotzki et al.
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Smoking gun at Betelgeuse: Hubble shows it was belching dust that dimmed the red supergiant
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Aug 14, 2020
Dramatic artwork depicting a huge cloud of dark dust erupting from the southern hemisphere of Betelgeuse, obscuring it and causing The Great Dimming of late 2019. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
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Astronomers use Hubble during an eclipse to detect life on Earth
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Aug 7, 2020
Artwork of Hubble observing the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
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Never-before-seen supernova super-explosion sent another star blazing through our galaxy
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Jul 18, 2020
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The beautiful spiral galaxy IC 342 and the mysterious huge bubble
Phil Plait
Jul 16, 2020
A close-up of the Hubble image of the galaxy IC 342 reveals a mysterious, round, red gas cloud (arrowed, and inset at 5X size). It’s unclear what it might be. NASA / ESA / Paul Sell / Judy Schmidt
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The spectacular ins and outs of starbirth
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Jul 14, 2020
Stars and gas seen by Hubble (red and yellow) together with long filaments of cold gas by ALMA (purple) start to show a complete picture of star formation. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble.
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Hubble sees a star flapping its wings (video)
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Jun 26, 2020
The star EC 82 (right of center) casts two long shadows onto the nebulosity around it in this Hubble image of a young star-forming region. Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
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Hubble sees the spectacular deaths of stars like the Sun
Phil Plait
Jun 19, 2020
The planetary nebulae NGC 6302 (left) and 7027 (right), dying stars casting off their outer layers, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)
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