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It Takes Very Special Conditions to Create This Bizarre Stellar Spectacle
A stellar odd couple 700 light-years away is creating a chaotically beautiful display of colourful, gaseous filaments. The Hubble captured…
6 days ago
Hubble’s New View of the Tarantula Nebula
The Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is the brightest star-forming region in our part of the galaxy. It's in…
2 years ago
Astronomers See Through the Milky Way’s Dust to Track Where Radiation is Coming From at the Center of the Galaxy
The center of our very own galaxy might be one of the Universe's most mysterious places. Astronomers have to probe…
4 years ago
A Cosmic Seagull’s Star-Studded Wings
Bright stars and vast clouds of dust and gas illuminate the "wings" of the Seagull Nebula (ESO) These glowing red…
12 years ago