This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

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November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

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Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...

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Astronomers have discovered a massive, nearly perfect ring of galaxies, 1.3 billion light-years in diameter, that defies ...

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