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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...
Fermi space telescope expands its search for dark matter
Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever. Although experiments on...
Earth-Like Planet Around PROXIMA CENTAURI Discovered
The hunt for exoplanets has been heating up in recent years. Since it began its mission in 2009, over four thousand exoplanet candidates...
NASA releases over 1,000 new images of the Red Planet
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) sent 1,035 photos of Mars back to Earth. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been...
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...
Biologists Search for New Model Organisms
The bulk of biological research is centered on a handful of species. Are we missing a huge chunk of life's secrets? Ever since he was a...
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