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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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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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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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IC 4870, the mystery galaxy
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Sep 6, 2018
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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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