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We’ve written often about how pareidolia -- the human tendency to see faces or other features in random images --…
In April 2021 Hubble released its 31st-anniversary image. It's a portrait of AG Carinae, one of the most luminous stars…
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The Stingray Nebula is the youngest known planetary nebula. For half a century astronomers have witnessed its formation, and now…
Planetary nebulae are astronomy's gateway drug. Their eye-catching forms make us wonder what process created them, and what else is…
Some stars die a beautiful death, ejecting their outer layers of gas into space, then lighting it all up with…
Using the SOFIA telescope, a team of NASA astronomers have conducted the most detailed survey of the interior of the…
About 10,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, is a planetary nebula called NGC 5307. A planetary nebula is…
7500 light years away is an object that (almost) needs no introduction: Eta Carinae. If you haven't heard of it…