Astronomy

Superstars in the Tarantula Nebula

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Asteroid Phaeton does not have a dust tail

Asteroid (3200) Phaeton near the sun (illustration). © NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminids are not caused by a comet, but by the asteroid...

Galactic giants of the early cosmos

Six early galaxies imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. © NASA/ESA/CSA, I Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology); Image processing: G. Brammer...

A young star at the black hole

Jungstern X3a and its surroundings. © Florian Peißker Extreme conditions prevail around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way – enormous tidal...

Our cosmic bubble

Star-forming region N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170,000 light-years away: The oval bubble several hundred light-years across on the right, which was...

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