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 Young, hot, earth-sized planet HD 63433d sits close to its star in the constellation Ursa Major, while two neighboring, mini-Neptune-sized planets identified in 2020 orbit farther out.

Earth-sized exoplanet discovered in ‘our solar backyard’ by international team

 The Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site

Running Chicken Nebula makes dazzling appearance in starry night sky

 An image of galaxy NGC 3156, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's Hubble telescope spots 'dreamy' galaxy

 The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

NASA finds source of life on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa

  Exoplanet K2-18b.

NASA's Webb telescope finds exoplanet with potential signs of life

 The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Soyuz spacecraft with US astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts docks at ISS

By REUTERS
 An artistic illustration of a hot Jupiter planet.

Jupiter-like planet observed spiraling off 950 light years from Earth

 A supermoon hangs in the night sky.

Rare 'blue supermoon' rises over Israel, won't return until 2037

 The sun as seen by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft in extreme ultraviolet light in this mosaic of 25 individual images taken on March 7, 2023, by the high resolution telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument.

India sets September launch date for mission to study the sun

By REUTERS
A montage of Saturn and its moons as captured by the Voyager 1 probe

Saturn visible in Israel's night sky at its brightest

 The blue moon as seen in the sky, August 30, 2023

Rare 'blue supermoon' to rise this week, won't return until 2037

 The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, built for NASA and the European Space Agency, lifts off from pad 41 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 9, 2020.

Sun-observing spacecraft sheds light on the solar wind's origin

By REUTERS
 This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc.

Scientists unveil secrets of star violently torn apart near black hole

 The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as Messier Object 104 or NGC 4594.

Spanish astronomer discovers a galaxy within a galaxy

 This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view

How did the Milky Way galaxy get its shape?

 Stars in the night sky.

What sounds do twinkling stars make? - study

 A young red dwarf star is seen stripping the atmosphere from a nearby planet in this artistic illustration.

NASA's Hubble Telescope records evaporating planet hiccupping during orbits

Illustrative image of wildlife.

Do we need to change the definition of 'life' to find it among the stars?

By Walla!