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Jupiter in infrared by the Gemini Observatory, showing warmer areas as brighter and cooler darker. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) et al. Acknowledgments: M. Zamani
New pix of Jupiter will rock your (very very large) world
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Hubble sees a nearby very young exoplanet finishing up a growth spurt
Phil Plait
Artwork depicting a young planet still in the process of growth, feeding off material falling onto it. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
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A star that lived, then died, then lived again, then died for real
Phil Plait
Hubble image of Abell 78, a dying star that cast of its outer layers to form a planetary nebula. It underwent a late pulse of energy, sending blobs of gas outward at high speeds. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Guerrero. Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
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For its birthday, Hubble has cake with several octillion tons of flaming candles on it
Phil Plait
The violently explosive star AG Carinae is surrounded by huge amounts of gas and dust — enough to make 15 Suns — seen here in a Hubble image celebrating its 31st year since launch in 1990. Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI
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Millions of lonely black holes are in our galaxy. Here’s how we’ll find some of them.
Phil Plait
Simulation of a massive black hole distorting light from the stars behind it. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)
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A new way to find gigantic black holes paired up at the dawn of the Universe
Phil Plait
Apr 13, 2021
Artwork showing a pair of quasars just a few thousand light years apart, each the center of a relatively normal galaxy that are merging with one another. Such objects should have been more common in the very young Universe. Credit: International Gemini Ob
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The best image ever taken of the cosmic web reveals the birthplace of galaxies
Phil Plait
Mar 19, 2021
Extremely distant hydrogen gas (blue) forms filaments that galaxies were born from in the very early Universe. The gas is displayed over the Hubble image of the Ultra Deep Field. Credit: Roland Bacon, David Mary, ESO and NASA
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A second wind – literally – for a scorching hot super-Earth
Phil Plait
Mar 12, 2021
Artwork depicting a rocky super-Earth planet orbiting closely to its host star. This one has a thin atmosphere, which can be examined from Earth as the planet transits its star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech)
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A comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter but will eventually get flung into interstellar space
Phil Plait
Feb 26, 2021
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)
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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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