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Pictures of galaxies never cease to amaze, and astronomers are consistently coming up with new ones that provide a different…
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Remember the Hubble Space Telescope's Deep Field and Ultra-Deep Field images? Those images showed everyone that what appears to be…
Astronomers have captured a radio galaxy that spans 16 Moon-widths in the sky.
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll feel a little odd after today's…
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When the poet Horace said “We are but dust and shadow”, he probably didn’t think that dust itself could create…