The collision course between NGC 4485 and NGC 4490 produces a bright and creative form of irregularity
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Are planetary nebulae made by supernovae?
We find out if these beautiful structures are made by the titanic explosion of massive stars
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Scorching exoplanet has glimpses of exotic metals in its atmosphere
Astronomers have found a host of rare-Earth metals in a the hottest known exoplanet
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How are comets made?
We take a look at how these ‘dirty snowballs’ are made
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NASA space telescope observes the illumination of primordial galaxies
NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and its infrared capabilities have revealed the details of galaxies born less than a billion years after the Big Bang
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More space telescopes could launch leading to even sharper black hole image
Astronomers have proposed constructing a series of space telescopes to image black holes known as the Event Horizon Imager (EHI)
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Gravitational wave ejections appear to be more frequent than first thought
The LIGO and Virgo collaboration has observed more cosmic collisions after their equipment upgrades in April 2019
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Hubble Space Telescope snaps stunning view of crowded cluster
These compact stellar gatherings orbit around galaxies and typically reside in their outer and less-crowded areas, gathering to form dense communities in the galactic suburbs
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Wobbling cosmic jets are being warped by a black hole and its powerful gravity
The space around the black hole V404 Cygni is being pushed and pulled by its gravity, which causes a wobble on its relativistic jets
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The story of M87: The galaxy behind the black hole image
The Event Horizon Telescope recently released a historic picture of M87’s black hole silhouette, but what else is there to know about the host galaxy?
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Astronomers spot the signal of two distant neutron stars merging
The merger sent an intense flash of radiation into the cosmos, picked up by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
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TRAPPIST-1 worlds have to endure formidable particles and harsh tidal heating
The three planets in the conventional habitable zone face the threat of harmful particles and gravitational tugging of the other planets
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TESS finds its first Earth-like planet 53 light years away
In the same system as this exciting Earth-like exoplanet, a sub-Neptune-sized planet was discovered too
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The first ever direct image of a black hole has been produced
Astronomers have, for the first time, imaged a supermassive black hole, which resides in the heart of a distant galaxy called Messier 87
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Could life already be evolving at our nearest exoplanet neighbour?
The closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima-b, receives much more harmful radiation from its host star, but it’s possible life to survive this bombardment
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The remains of a planet has been spotted around distant dead star
Planetary fragment identified in a disk of debris circling a dead star 400 light years away and is thought to be rich in heavy metals
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Radio astronomy has directly revealed a key feature on a powerful distant galaxy
Astronomers have previously theorised that a thick ring of dust, known as a torus, surrounds the supermassive black holes at the centre of huge galaxies
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Astronomers capture the birth of enormous stars with airborne observatory
The SOFIA observatory took to the skies to photograph the dense cloud of gas lit up by stars forming within
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Spitzer captures beautiful ‘space butterfly’ spreading its cosmic wings
NASA’s infrared juggernaut has imaged the fluttering of illuminated gas where new stars form
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X-ray ‘chimneys’ deplete the energy generated at the centre of the Milky Way
As stars form and black holes throw out energy, the centre of galaxies can have a build up of energy and require these ‘chimneys’ to offer a route to escape