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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble telescope captures galaxy clusters merging

 An artist's concept shows the two-faced white dwarf star nicknamed Janus.

Introducing Janus, the exotic 'two-faced' white dwarf star

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 High-resolution illustration of the Euclid and Roman spacecraft against a starry background.

NASA to launch telescopes to investigate 'dark energy' in space

 The Moon and the Earth from space

Is ET phoning home? Astronomers detect unprecedented space signals

An image of Saturn taken by NASA's shuttle Cassini.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus harbors essential elements for life

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 ILAN RAMON, the first Israeli astronaut, during training at the NASA space center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2002.

Grapevine June 4, 2023: Remembering Ilan Ramon

 The moon appears red in the sky.

Strawberry Moon to shine bright in Sunday morning's sky

 Radio telescopes, which are used to find radio broadcasts from space (Illustrative).

Scientists expand search for signs of intelligent alien life

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 Artist's impression of the surroundings of a supermassive black hole (Illustrative).

Israeli astrophysicists may have solved the mystery of early massive galaxies

 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

Milky Way may not be the shape we thought - study

Artist's Impression of a collision of two icy asteroid-sized bodies orbiting the bright star Fomalhaut

Astronomers identify asteroid belt, revealing hidden planets - study

The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the center of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument.

Astronomers capture dying star engulfing a planet - study

 This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked.

Scientists discover that galactic collisions cause quasars - study

 One of the Unit Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is producing artificial stars in the skies above the Atacama Desert, above the Milky Way.

Detailed dark matter map provides further support for Einstein's theory of general relativity

 Swift X-ray observations of galaxy NGC 5408 indicate its ultraluminous X-ray source undergoes periodic changes every 115.5 days. This cycle, astronomers suspect, is linked to the orbit of a donor star around a middleweight black hole, as shown in this artist's view.

What are mysterious cosmic objects shining brighter than the sun?