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Topic: Astronomy (page 5)

Planet Venus (Getty Images/3quarks)

NASA changes its mind about Venus

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

Humdrum comet or alien spacecraft?

Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

It's too late to clean space junk

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

Golden sun rays beaming through white clouds (Getty Images)

Water existed before the sun, study says

Asteroid passing earth (Getty Images)

High-risk asteroid due in 2046

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

Comet coming may be brighter than Venus

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

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

The cloud at the center of the galaxy

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

Black hole (Getty Images/Picture Umar)

Black holes don't just suck — they blow

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

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

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

Mars colony, concept (Getty Images/e71lena)

Humans may not be able to live on Mars

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

We're living in a Groundhog Day universe

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

Groundhog Day's astronomical roots

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

These old asteroids are indestructible

Milky Way Galaxy (Getty Images/Suchart Kuathan)

Google Maps for the Milky Way

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

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year in early March. (NASA/Dan Bartlett)

How to see a comet coming close to Earth

Artist’s concept of a fallback disk around pulsar 4U 0142+61. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))

A strange star with a solid surface

A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a noreaster in Marshfield, Massachusetts, on January 29, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

How Earth’s tilt affects January

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