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Hubble/STIS images of AU Mic taken a few years apart show the motion of a blob moving outward from the star. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Wisniewski (University of Oklahoma), C. Grady (Eureka Scientific), and G. Schneider (Steward Observatory)
Rocky worlds around red dwarfs may get blasted clean of water
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Overlapping galaxies
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Two overlapping galaxies, some 800 million light years away, were captured by Hubble accidentally while viewing a much closer galaxy (NGC 253, off screen to the right).
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A distant box of jewels
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The spectacular globular cluster NGC 1466. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Nancy Grace Roman, ‘mother’ of Hubble Space Telescope, passes away
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Nancy Grace Roman via Getty Images
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A cluster of clusters: The globulars of Coma
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Dec 10, 2018
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The inner part of the massive Coma galaxy cluster, where thousands of galaxies swarm. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Mack (STScI), and J. Madrid (Australian Telescope National Facility)
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A distant black hole powers a colossal galactic fountain
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Nov 29, 2018
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Composite image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2597 showing X-rays from background hot gas (purple), radio waves from cold gas falling toward the center (yellow), and warm hydrogen gas (red).
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Beginnings
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Nov 28, 2018
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Distant galaxies pepper this deep infrared image of the sky, the first taken by Hubble after being reactivated after several weeks of being in safe mode due to a busted gyro. This image has been enlarged and slightly contrast-enhanced from original.
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Observing galaxy cluster collisions is quite the… enterprise
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Nov 20, 2018
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The colliding galaxy clusters Abell 1033. Optical light (red/green/blue) shows galaxies, X-rays (purple) super-hot gas, and radio (blue) much lower energy gas blown out from a galaxy.
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Good news and bad news: Hubble and Chandra back on duty, Kepler and Dawn may be at the ends of their missions
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Oct 29, 2018
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Four great space missions: Hubble (top left), Chandra (top right), Kepler (bottom left), and Dawn (bottom right). Credit (respectively): NASA, NASA/CXC/NGST, NASA, NASA/JPL-Caltech
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The Milky Way’s sibling spiral star system
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Oct 19, 2018
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The central region of the gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 6744, imaged using the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
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Hey, we were right! Planets found around the baby star HD 163296
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Oct 17, 2018
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Artist concept of three still-forming planets orbiting the young star HD 163296. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; S. Dagnello
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Hubble trouble: Busted gyro puts telescope in safe mode
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Oct 9, 2018
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, seen here above the Earth during the last servicing mission in 2009. Credit: NASA
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More evidence piles up that we’re seeing an exomoon orbiting an alien world
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Oct 3, 2018
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Artwork depicting a gas giant exoplanet with a gas giant exomoon.
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Revisiting the Tarantula Nebula to find an old friend
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Sep 20, 2018
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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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Sep 13, 2018
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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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Sep 10, 2018
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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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