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A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

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A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

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The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

For over a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope meticulously observed our closest galactic neighbor, capturing over 1,000 ...

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There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...