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James Webb Space Telescope Captures New Images of the Whirlpool Galaxy

Combining both the MIRI and NIRCam images into a composite photo reveals a rich tapestry of details, providing valuable insights into the interplay between stellar feedback and star formation in extragalactic environments.

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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers the Earliest-Known Carbon Dust

This revelation challenges existing theories on the chemical evolution of the universe, as the detection suggests that galaxies formed and enriched with carbon much more rapidly than previously believed.

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Astronomers Created a New Detailed Map of the Milky Way

The map is comprised of 21,400 individual exposures, with a final image showing a huge 3.32 billion celestial objects. The collected data accounts for around 6.5 percent of the entire night sky.

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The Milky Way May Have a Different Shape Than We Previously Thought

After a detailed study of the collected and systematized data, scientists suggested that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with only two main arms extending from a centralized cluster of stars.

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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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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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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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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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Astronomers Created a New Interactive Map of the Universe

The full map of the observable universe is actually a slice of cosmos with a thickness of about 10 degrees. However, it still gives an idea of the scale of our universe as well as its stars and galaxies up to 13.7 billion light-years away.

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James Webb Telescope Spotted Two Unusually Bright Galaxies from the Early Universe

The galaxies are extremely bright, and one of the reasons for this may be that they could have been very massive, with lots of low-mass stars. Or they could be much less massive, consisting of a smaller number of extremely bright Population III stars.

Artist’s impression of the closest black hole to Earth and its Sun-like companion star

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Astronomers Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

A team of astronomers has discovered the closest known black hole to Earth using data from the Gaia spacecraft. They did it by observing the Sun-like star moving in unexpected ways caused by the gravity of an unseen massive object.

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James Webb Telescope Captures a Stunning View of Cartwheel Galaxy

Cartwheel is located at a distance of about 500 million light-years from Earth in the Sculptor constellation, and its estimated diameter is 150 thousand light-years.

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Astronomers Discover the Oldest Galaxy in the Universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the oldest galaxy in the universe – GLASS-z13. It is assumed that it was formed 300 million years after the Big Bang and is now 13.5 billion years old.

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NASA's Chandra Observatory Spots Galaxy Clusters' Collision

Abell 2146 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located nearly 2.8 billion light-years from our planet. Galaxy clusters contain hundreds of galaxies along with huge amounts of dark matter and hot gas.

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NASA Releases an Arcade-Style Game Called Roman Space Observer

The targets you will need to capture include orange and pink spirals or galaxies, blue ringed exoplanets, black holes, dark matter, white starburst supernovae, green rogue exoplanets, etc.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Two Spiral Galaxies

NASA unveiled a new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows two bright star-forming galaxies. The two galaxies are known as Arp 303. However, each galaxy has its individual name – IC 563 and IC 564.

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Astronomers Discover a New Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy

Astronomers have discovered an ultra-faint galaxy called Toucana B. It is located 4.5 million light-years away, and scientists believe it could show us what stellar systems looked like at the beginning of the universe.

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ESO Shares the First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

We cannot see the black hole itself, since it is completely black, but the luminous gas around proves that it is there: the dark central region is surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new image captures light distorted by the powerful gravity of the black hole.

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Hubble Celebrated Its Birthday With an Image of the Hickson Compact Group 40

In the course of their journey through the universe, their paths crossed, and they are now are falling together in a gravitational dance until they inevitably merge.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures the Galactic Angel Wing

NASA shared an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, which shows a deep space object VV689, a system nicknamed the Angel Wing. It can be found in the night sky in the constellation Leo.

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LAMOST Discovered Over 1,500 Compact Galaxies

Of the 1,417 new compact galaxies, 739 are Green Pea galaxies, 270 are Blueberry galaxies, and 388 are Purple Grape galaxies. These classes of stellar systems have received such strange names relatively recently because of their appearance.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Images of a Spiral Galaxy

It is believed that about a half of spiral galaxies (including our Milky Way) have a similar structure. The spiral arms of NGC 5921 stretch out of the bar, studded densely with clusters of young stars.

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Astronomers Discover the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Found

HD1 is 100 million light-years farther from Earth than the previous record-breaking galaxy GN-z11. According to preliminary calculations, HD1 produces about a hundred stars each year, which is ten times more than expected from a galaxy of this type.

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Astronomers Discover the Largest Known Galaxy in the Universe

This cluster of stars that orbit a supermassive black hole is located three billion light-years from Earth and stretches at least 16.3 million light-years through space.