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Hubble Tracks a Galaxy on the Move

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Hubble Tracks a Galaxy on the Move

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Why the Sun Won't Become a Black Hole

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view of a solar eruption on April 21, 2015.

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NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Its 1st Star-shredding Black Hole

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This illustration shows a tidal disruption, which occurs when a passing star gets too close to a black hole and is torn apart into a stream of gas. Some of the gas eventually settles into a structure around the black hole called an accretion disk.

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A planet that should not exist

Astronomers detected a giant planet orbiting a small star. The planet has much more mass than theoretical models predict. While this surprising discovery was made by a Spanish-German team, researchers at the University of Bern studied how the mysterious exoplanet might have formed.

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Artistic impression of the gas giant planet GJ 3512b orbiting its red dwarf host star.

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Glowing Solar Cell

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Glowing Solar Cell

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NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World

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Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black hole’s extreme gravity alters the paths of light coming from different parts of the disk, producing the warped image.

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Found - Three Black Holes On Collision Course

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Found - Three Black Holes On Collision Course

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NASA Designing Shapeshifting Robots for Saturn's Moons

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A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that can morph into rolling spheres, flying drones, swimming submersibles, and more.

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Naming of New Interstellar Visitor: 2I/Borisov

A new object from interstellar space has been found within the Solar System, only the second such discovery of its kind. Astronomers are turning their telescopes towards the visitor, which offers a tantalising glimpse beyond our Solar System and raises some puzzling questions. The object has been given the name 2I/Borisov by the IAU.

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Naming of New Interstellar Visitor: 2I/Borisov

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WFIRST Space Telescope Fitted for 'Starglasses'

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An optical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an instrument called a coronagraph that will fly aboard the WFIRST space telescope.