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Space & Cosmos
Astronomers discover a pair of fates of spiral stars at our universe’s gateway
In this photo, the first white dwarf captures the binary at the moment it just explodes, rushing through the material towards a nearby companion in the explosion cusp. The event takes place in about 23 billion years, but in just four seconds both stars explode. Credit: Warwick University/Markgarrick Astronomers at the University of Warwick discovered a very rare, high-mass compact…
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Astronomers discover supermassive Grand Design spiral galaxy
Morphology and photometric redshift of Zhúlóng. Credit: Xiao et al., 2024. An international team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a new grand design spiral galaxy as part of a panoramic survey. The newly discovered galaxy, named Zhúlóng, is so massive that it appears to be the most distant spiral galaxy yet identified. The findings…
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Hubble captures barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures supernova spiral galaxy NGC 1672. Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. van Dijk, A. Filipenko, J. Li and the PHANGS-HST team, D. de Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA) /Hubble) This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Dorado, 49 million…
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Hubble photographs a stellar nursery in a majestic spiral galaxy IC 1954
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy IC 1954. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J. Lee, and PHANGS-HST team This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. At its center is a glowing rod with majestically winding spiral arms, above which is…
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