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@dspace May 4, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

Massive Globular Star Cluster : NGC 1866

Star clusters are common structures throughout the universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity. Located in the constellation of Dorado, at the very edges of…

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@dspace May 2, 2020, 2:21 AM UTC

A Pair of Supermassive Black Holes are Stuck in a Collision ...

This is a Binary Black hole. It’s a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. As the orbiting black holes give off these waves, the orbit decays, and the orbital period d…

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@dspace Apr 30, 2020, 9:52 AM UTC

Titanic Supernova of Eta Carinae star

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula, where a maelstrom of star birth — and death — is taking place. Hubble's view shows star bi…

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@dspace Apr 29, 2020, 4:24 AM UTC

Giant Cluster Stars - Westerlund 2

The sparkling centerpiece is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from E…

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@dspace Apr 27, 2020, 5:12 AM UTC

Herschel 36 Giant Star

This colorful Hubble image gives us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary tapestry of stellar birth and destruction. At the center of the photo, a monster young star at the heart of the Lagoo…

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@dspace Apr 13, 2018, 8:08 AM UTC

NGC 3603

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603 is a promine…

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@dspace Mar 29, 2018, 9:43 AM UTC

NGC 2841

- -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Hubble reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's…

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@dspace Mar 26, 2018, 9:15 AM UTC

LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

- -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC),…

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@dspace Mar 16, 2018, 9:32 PM UTC

Spiral Galaxies Collide

- -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars, spiral galaxies NG…

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@dspace Mar 15, 2018, 3:17 PM UTC

Cartwheel Galaxy

- -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- The object was first spotted on wide-field images from the U.K. Schmidt telescope and then studied in detail using the Anglo-Australian Telescope…

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