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Australia: like a furnace

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Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps

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Each snapshot shows four distorted images of a background quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of...

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Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life

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This infographic compares the characteristics of three classes of stars in our galaxy: Sunlike stars are...

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Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass

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These images taken by the Terra satellite and enhanced by using correction reflectance bands on the MODIS (...

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New Technique May Give NASA’s Webb Telescope a Way to Quickly Identify Planets with Oxygen

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Conceptual image of water-bearing (left) and dry (right) exoplanets with oxygen-rich atmospheres. Crescents are...

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NASA’s TESS Mission Uncovers Its 1st World With Two Stars

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TOI 1338 b is silhouetted by its host stars. TESS only detects transits from the larger star.

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NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of an Exploded Star

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This new multiwavelength image of the Crab Nebula combines X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray...

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NASA's Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy

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This Hubble Space Telescope photograph showcases the majestic spiral galaxy UGC 2885,...

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