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Forecast for Jupiter's moon Ganymede: Extremely cold and… humid?
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Magnificent Hubble image of a cluster warping space and stripping gas
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Glaxy Cluster
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When the Universe makes no sense, look at a pretty galaxy
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The spiral galaxy NGC 3254, seen by Hubble in 2019. Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; CC BY 4.0
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Hubble on the Bubble: Can NASA fix the world’s most famous telescope?
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Jul 5, 2021
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, seen here above the Earth during the last servicing mission in 2009. Credit: NASA
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What happened to this galaxy’s dark matter?
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Jun 21, 2021
The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, seen here using Hubble, apparently has little or no dark matter. It’s not clear how this happened. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS) Image processing: Aly
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NGC 4394: A gorgeous galaxy with a built-in bar
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Jun 11, 2021
Detail of the bar and core of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4394. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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The rise and rapid fall of the Stingray Nebula
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Jun 10, 2021
Henize 3-1357, aka the Stingray Nebula, seen in 1996 and 2006 by Hubble, has changed significantly over that time, fading in many places. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G
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When two galaxies love each other very much…
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Jun 2, 2021
Arp 256N in more detail. Note the tidal tails and bright blue spots indicating star formation sites. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
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A moment of the Universe
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May 24, 2021
A foreground star (upper left) betrays its nature via diffraction spikes, an optical effect when a point source of light passes through a telescope.
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New pix of Jupiter will rock your (very very large) world
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May 12, 2021
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
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Hubble sees a nearby very young exoplanet finishing up a growth spurt
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Apr 30, 2021
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
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Apr 28, 2021
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
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Apr 26, 2021
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.
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Apr 23, 2021
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
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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
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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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