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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Aftermath of NASA's DART Asteroid Impact

The newly released movie begins roughly 1.3 hours before the DART impact, then shows the system of two asteroids two hours after the event, with debris moving at speeds fast enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the asteroid system.

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Hubble Space Telescope Spots a Rare View of 3 Galaxies About to Collide

This colliding trio, collectively known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189, is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies only 50,000 light-years apart. According to scientists, this is an extremely small distance on a cosmic scale.

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A Strange and Unusual Vortex Was Spotted Around the Sun's North Pole

Researchers explain that the Sun is now increasing its activity, but this is not a cause for concern. Such activity cycles occur quite frequently and coincide with fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field.

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Astronomers Find a New Potential Habitable Exoplanet 31 Light-Years Away

The planet, named Wolf 1069 b, is located in the habitable zone of its star, a red dwarf. A habitable zone is an area where conditions are suitable for the existence of liquid water on the surface, which means that the planet can hypothetically sustain life.

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NASA Shares a New Stunning Image of Earth Taken by the NOAA-21 Satellite

As noted, the images of the Earth that make up this mosaic and several close-ups were captured on December 5 and 6 using an instrument called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the NOAA-21 imaging satellite.

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Astronomers Discover a "Mirror Image" of the Milky Way from Billions of Years Ago

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a galaxy that looks very similar to our Milky Way in its early stages of evolution. It was named the Sparkler because almost two dozen glittering globular clusters orbit it.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Records the Sound of a Dust Devil on Mars

On September 27, 2021, the vortex of at least 118 metres high and 25 metres wide passed directly over the rover as it landed in the Jezero crater.

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Saudi Arabia Will Send Its First Female Astronaut Into Space

Rayyana Barnawi will join her fellow Saudi astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station. Barnawi and Al Qarni will fly to the ISS aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as part of a mission by private space company Axiom Space.

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Astronomers Discover an Earth-Sized Planet Within Its Star's Habitable Zone

Planets located outside the solar system are called exoplanets. The Earth-like planet, dubbed TOI 700 e, is the fourth exoplanet to be discovered orbiting the small, cool dwarf star TOI 700.

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We Can Now Hear the Sound of One of the Milky Way's Most Beautiful Stars

Converting visual data into auditory data makes it more accessible to people with visual impairments. In addition, this approach can reveal details in the data, like patterns and weaker signals, that might otherwise be overlooked.

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NASA and DARPA to Create a Working Nuclear Thermal Rocket by 2027

As noted by NASA, nuclear-powered spacecraft will allow for shorter flight times, reducing the risks for astronauts during long-distance missions, such as future crewed missions to Mars.

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NASA's HiRISE Captures an Image of a Bear's Face on Mars

The circular fracture pattern could have been caused by sediment over a buried impact crater. The nose could have been formed by a volcanic or mud vent.

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Astronomers Capture a Radio Signal from an Extremely Distant Galaxy

This discovery was made possible by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, in which light emitted by a source is bent by the presence of another massive body, effectively amplifying the signal, the astronomers explain.

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Scientists Discover Two Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies

It will take several hundred million years for this particular pair of black holes to collide, but the insight gained from this observation could help scientists better estimate how many pairs of black holes in the universe are close to colliding.

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NASA Released an Hour-long Time-Lapse Video Showing 133 Days of the Sun's Life

From a series of images taken by cameras of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, NASA specialists have created a stunning video showing how the Sun's surface has changed over 133 days.

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Hubble Telescope Finds a Black Hole Twisting a Star into a Doughnut as It Swallows It

Scientists say that a star is only torn apart in this way a few times every 100 thousand years in a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. These stellar killings are called "tidal disruption events."

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NASA's Orion Spacecraft Successfully Returns to Earth after Lunar Mission

Successful completion of the mission paves the way for the second stage of a human return to the Moon, the Artemis 2 mission, when a crew of astronauts will orbit the Moon in the Orion capsule. The third stage is the landing of people on a satellite of the Earth.

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Hubble Captured a Supernova Just Hours After the Explosion

In the images, astronomers have seen the early phases of a supernova at different stages. The three images of this supernova show a faint blue spot of a growing flare that is getting brighter and redder.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Celestial Fireworks Left by a Star's Death

The image shows intertwined strands of blue and orange that are the remnants of the supernova DEM L 190. The structure is located in the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and hides a rapidly spinning neutron star.

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Hubble Space Telescope Shared a New Festive Season Photo

The image shows a small region of the Westerhout 5 nebula, which is 7,000 light years away from Earth. The luminous image hosts a variety of interesting features, including a free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (frEGG).

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Astronomers Discovered Two Exoplanets That May Be Mostly Water

Scientists hope the planets orbiting the red dwarf Kepler-138 won't be the last of its kind to be discovered. As instruments and detection techniques improve, more aquatic worlds like Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d are likely to be discovered.

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NASA Showed How It Will Bring Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth

A set of samples from the rover will be reloaded aboard the Mars Ascent Vehicle. It will deliver the samples to a Martian orbit, where they will be picked up by the Earth Return Orbiter and delivered to Earth.

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Hubble Captured a Star-Studded Cosmic Cloud

NGC 6530 is a cluster of several thousand stars embedded within the Lagoon Nebula – a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust. It is the nebula that gives this image its distinctive smoky appearance.

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NASA's Webb Studied the Atmosphere of an Alien Exoplanet in Detail

The planet's atmosphere is composed of sulfur and silicates. When they interact with the parent star's light, they produce sulfur dioxide – this is the first time such a compound has been found in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

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NASA Shared a 12-year Timelapse of the Entire Universe

NEOWISE has added hundreds of brown dwarfs to its catalog, monitored 1,000 protostars, gas balls hot enough to ignite and become stars, and discovered millions of supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies.