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Hubble probes the core of galaxy NGC 247
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the central region of a spiral galaxy known as NGC 247. NGC 247 is a relatively small...


Hundreds of black holes congregate surprisingly peacefully in a Milky Way star cluster
Black holes get along with each other better than expected. A team at the University of Surrey found hundreds of black holes in a large...


Rare fossil relic of early Milky Way discovered
A fossilised remnant of the early Milky Way harbouring stars of hugely different ages has been revealed by an international team of...


Astronomers find a galaxy that's mostly dark matter
An image of Dragonfly 99, a faint galaxy dominated by dark matter. Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Gemini Observatory/AURA The hazy...


Titan's canyons are flooded with methane
Saturn's largest moon is beginning to look more and more like a bizarro Earth. NASA-JPL Titan is a strange, strange world — a frigid moon...
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