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Topic: Astronomy (page 5)

Mars and Deimos (Getty Images/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI)

Origin of Deimos thrown into question

Matthew Rozsa
Total Solar Eclipse (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Everything to know about 2024's eclipse

Troy Farah
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Earthquakes on Mars reveal core mystery

Troy Farah
Planet Venus (Getty Images/3quarks)

NASA changes its mind about Venus

Matthew Rozsa
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Oumuamua, interstellar object passing through the Solar System (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Humdrum comet or alien spacecraft?

Nicole Karlis
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

It's too late to clean space junk

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of the exoplanet VHS 1256 b. (NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI))

Webb eyes exoplanet with water, methane

Nicole Karlis
Golden sun rays beaming through white clouds (Getty Images)

Water existed before the sun, study says

Nicole Karlis
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Asteroid passing earth (Getty Images)

High-risk asteroid due in 2046

Troy Farah
Illustration of the Earth, Moon and Sun showing a passing comet (Getty Images)

Comet coming may be brighter than Venus

Troy Farah
Silhouette of a man looking at the Milky Way Stars shining above (Getty Images)

Chris Impey, Connie Walker
Supermassive Black Hole (Getty Images/solarseven)

Astronomers eye a "runaway" black hole

Nicole Karlis
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X7 location relative to the supermassive black hole (Anna Ciurlo/UCLA)

The cloud at the center of the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
A mosaic collected by James Webb of a region of space close to the Big Dipper, with insets showing the location of six new candidate galaxies from the dawn of the universe. (NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center at the University of Copenhagen))

Webb sees galaxies that shouldn't exist

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole (Getty Images/Picture Umar)

Black holes don't just suck — they blow

Troy Farah
Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. (NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory)

Uranus mission won't happen till 2040s

Troy Farah
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The Sparkler galaxy provides a snap-shot of an infant Milky Way as it accretes mass over cosmic time. This image shows an artist impression of our Milky Way galaxy in its youth. (James Josephides/Swinburne University)

Mini Milky Way? NASA spots a new galaxy

Nicole Karlis
Artist’s conception of a rocky Earth-mass exoplanet, called Kepler-1649c, orbiting a red dwarf star. (NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter)

The planet down the block is a lot

Nicole Karlis
Mars colony, concept (Getty Images/e71lena)

Humans may not be able to live on Mars

Troy Farah
Multiverse, concept (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

We're living in a Groundhog Day universe

Troy Farah
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Groundhog in Space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Groundhog Day's astronomical roots

Nicole Karlis
A visualization of the Itokawa asteroid, which was visited by the Japanese Hayabusa1 mission. (JAXA/Curtin University)

These old asteroids are indestructible

Nicole Karlis
Milky Way Galaxy (Getty Images/Suchart Kuathan)

Google Maps for the Milky Way

Nicole Karlis
This artist’s conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Black holes on a collision course

Troy Farah
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