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Space & Cosmos
Hubble Spot Star Cluster NGC 346
NGC 346. Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble In anticipation of the 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is starting to celebrate with new images of the Star Cluster NGC 346 with new data and processing technology. This prolific star factory is located in the small Magellan cloud, one of the largest of the Milky Way satellite galaxies. As…
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Space & Cosmos
Dark energy camera captures sparkling galaxies in the Antria star cluster
The Antria Galaxy Cluster (Abell S636) is a group of at least 230 galaxies located approximately 130 million light-years away in the direction of the Antria constellation (air pump). There are many different types of galaxies, including lenticular galaxies, irregular galaxies, and microdwarfs. This cluster is dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies: NGC 3268 (center) and NGC 3258 (bottom right).…
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Space & Cosmos
NASA’s Chandra discovers galaxy cluster crossing river
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Xiamen University/C. Ge; Optics: DESI Collaboration; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory have discovered two intersecting streams of superhot gas in a cluster of galaxies, a finding that suggests the intersection of gas streams could lead to the formation of new structures. Researchers have discovered a huge, comet-like tail of hot gas stretching more…
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