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3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'
In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
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What Is a Nebula?
What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...
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Saturn's Rings Had Strange Seasonal Spokes - Hubble To Study
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
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NASA's stuck astronaut steps out on a spacewalk after 7 months in orbit
In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...
'A 0.6-mile behemoth': China is building a Three Gorges Dam in space
China plans a 0.6-mile-wide solar power station in space, transmitting energy to Earth via microwaves, rivaling the scale of ...