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Spectacular star trails in dark Chilean sky
Pictured is a dark Chilean sky filled with spectacular star trails, caused by the Earth’s rotation during the camera’s long exposure time
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Inside stellar nursery IC 2944
This intriguing view of stellar nursery IC 2944 was released to celebrate 15 years of successful observations by ESO’s Very Large Telescope
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NGC 1929: a surprisingly bright superbubble
This composite image shows a surprisingly bright superbubble in the star cluster NGC 1929, which is embedded in the nebula N44
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Colossal hot cloud envelops colliding galaxies in NGC 6240
Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies in the system called NGC 6240
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Iconic Horsehead Nebula in infrared
Astronomers have used Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light
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Spectacular jets in Hercules A
Pictured are spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A
View ArticleVery Large Telescope upgrade for planetary search
Hopefully the Very Large Telescope telescope will find a planet in the habitable zone that Breakthrough Starshot can target for an interstellar mission. The post Very Large Telescope upgrade for...
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