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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
The staggering beauty of galactic collisions
Phil Plait

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The imperfect perfection of the star cluster NGC 1898
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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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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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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
Phil Plait
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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How to make a moon of Neptune: Whack another moon REALLY hard.
Phil Plait
Feb 21, 2019
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Artwork depicting Neptune and its small moon Hippocamp. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI)
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"And what is this newfound love for the ice giants?"
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Feb 12, 2019
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Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) seen by Hubble in late 2018. Both are monitored every year or so for atmospheric features.
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M33 Followup: The massive and fierce beauty of an enormous stellar nursery
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Feb 5, 2019
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NGC 604, a mighty gas cloud in the nearby galaxy M33. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B.F. Williams (University of Washington) / J. Hester / J. Westphal / D. Garnett / Judy Schmidt
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T R I A N G U L U M
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Feb 4, 2019
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The core of M33 (center) is the location of a huge cluster of stars born relatively recently — 70 or so million years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B.F. Williams (University of Washington)
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Astronomers accidentally discover a nearby galaxy in a Hubble image!
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Feb 1, 2019
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The tiny and faint dwarf galaxy Bedin I is almost hidden in the background among the much brighter stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752. Note several other far more distant galaxies can be seen, too.
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How is a galaxy like a road-tripping dog?
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Jan 30, 2019
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A close-up of D100 shows the streamer in silhouette, with the dust (along with the gas) leaving the galaxy blocking the light form stars behind it. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Sun (University of Alabama), and W. Cramer and J. Kenney (Yale University)
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Rocky worlds around red dwarfs may get blasted clean of water
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Jan 16, 2019
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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)
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Overlapping galaxies
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Jan 8, 2019
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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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Jan 4, 2019
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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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Dec 31, 2018
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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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