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Hubble Captures Explosive Star Duo in Mesmerizing Detail

The material from these stellar eruptions now extends roughly 248 billion miles from the central core, showcasing one of the most spectacular examples of symbiotic star interaction in our galaxy.

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Hubble Captures Rosy View of Andromeda, Milky Way's Neighbor

Known as the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, Andromeda sits about 2.5 million light-years away and spans roughly 152,000 light-years across, making it comparable in size to our galaxy.

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Hubble Captures Distant "Cosmic Fossil" Offering Insight into Early Universe

This dwarf spheroidal galaxy, much smaller and dimmer than typical galaxies, contains very little dust and has a stellar population that is skewed toward older stars.

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NASA's New 3D Visualization Takes You Through the Pillars of Creation

The visualization highlights the dynamic and three-dimensional nature of these pillars, showing them in both visible light, as seen by Hubble, and in infrared light, as captured by Webb.

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Hubble Captures Young Sun-like Star in a Striking New Image

The star, known as HP Tau, is just 10 million years old and has yet to initiate nuclear fusion. It is part of a triple-star system that includes HP Tau G2 and HP Tau G3, shining brightly from a hollow in a reflection nebula.

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Hubble Space Telescope Marks Its 34th Anniversary with a Stunning Image of Little Dumbbell Nebula

The Little Dumbbell Nebula, a planetary nebula formed from the remnants of a dying star, appears in the image as a vibrant cloud of glowing gas, shaped like two interconnected translucent bubbles.

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Hubble Captures Stellar Field in Milky Way's Satellite Galaxy

This globular cluster, positioned about 162,000 light-years from Earth, showcases an impressive collection of stars with a total mass of around 170,000 suns, all approximately the same age.

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Hubble Telescope Captures Birth of a Star in Vivid Detail

The observations of FS Tau B add to our understanding of the complex life cycle of stars and offer a glimpse into the conditions that prevail in one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth.

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James Webb Space Telescope Validates Universe's Expansion Rate

The JWST's observations have ruled out human error in Hubble's measurements, reinforcing their reliability but simultaneously amplifying the mystery behind the Hubble Tension.

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NASA Unveils New Sonifications of Images from Its Chandra X-ray Observatory

The spiral galaxy M74, akin to our Milky Way, and the Jellyfish Nebula, bring the beauty of the universe to our ears through a combination of data from Chandra, James Webb, Hubble, and other telescopes.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Massive Stellar Bridge Between Galaxies

Arp 295 comprises three spiral galaxies: Arp 295a, Arp 295b, and Arp 295c. The focal point of the image is Arp 295a, an edge-on galaxy, while Arp 295c, a smaller blue spiral, graces the background.

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Hubble Captures a Spectacular Collision of Two Spiral Galaxies

This captivating encounter involves NGC 6040, a tilted and warped spiral galaxy, and LEDA 59642, a round and face-on spiral galaxy, locked in a gravitational embrace.

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Hubble Telescope Captures a Stunning Image of a 'Snowball' of Stars

Situated approximately 158,000 light-years from Earth, NGC 2210 is believed to be around 11.6 billion years old, making it one of the more youthful globular clusters within the LMC.

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Hubble Space Telescope Temporarily Pauses Observations Due to Gyroscope Issues

Currently, NASA's Hubble team is diligently working on diagnosing the problem and devising solutions to get the telescope back on track. If necessary, they can reconfigure the telescope to operate with just one gyroscope.

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James Webb and Hubble Telescopes Illuminate the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster

This collaborative effort between the two space telescopes has unveiled a rich tapestry of celestial wonders, offering a breathtaking glimpse into the cosmos. MACS0416 is actually a pair of colliding galaxy clusters.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Striking Image of Three Interacting Galaxies

These three galaxies, located approximately 500 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Tucana, are engaged in a gravitational tango, prompting astronomers to label them as a "merging group."

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NASA Contemplates Budget Cuts for Hubble and Chandra Space Telescopes

While the specific details of the budget cuts have not been disclosed, Clampin stated that they are still under consideration. He did mention that he managed to secure a "positive adjustment" in the budget for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory just recently.

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Hubble Telescope Captures an Unexplained Cosmic Explosion Between Galaxies

This brilliant burst of blue light, an exceedingly rare phenomenon, occurred in an unexpected location, far removed from any host galaxy, challenging what astronomers thought they knew about these events.

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Astronomers Spot a Mysterious Dark Patch on Neptune's Surface

The dark spot, measuring around 10,000 kilometers in diameter, had puzzled scientists since its discovery by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1989. However, new data collected by the VLT suggests a fresh understanding of its composition and origin.

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Hubble Captures a Star Blasting a Planet's Atmosphere Away

This remarkable event, unfolding in the system known as AU Microscopii, located just 32 light-years away, showcases the interplay between a planet and its parent star in a truly extreme setting.

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Hubble Space Telescope Reveals a Rare Intermediate-Sized Black Hole

The data collected by Hubble rule out alternative explanations for the object, such as a compact central cluster of stellar remnants like neutron stars, or smaller black holes orbiting each other.

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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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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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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.