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Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

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A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

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