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A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a star that was pulled apart by the black hole. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Visualizing star-munching black holes

James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

Webb's stunning Pillars of Creation pic

This is an artist's illustration of a massive new exoplanet called AB Aurigae b, confirmed to be forming via new and archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope. AB Aurigae b is estimated to be about nine times more massive than Jupiter and orbits its host star over two times farther than Pluto is from our Sun. (NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

Hubble spots a "weird" Jupiter

A technical drawing is seen on screen as Systems Engineers Christopher Murray (R) works at his console at the Webb Mission Office ahead of the James Web Space Telescopes launch at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 3, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The James Webb telescope's big gamble

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive hurricane-like storm big enough to swallow two Earths (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is speeding up

Hubble Space Telescope (Getty Images/James Benet)

Hubble stops, and starts again

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange and very rare phenomenon. This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s, located in the southern hemisphere constellation of Fornax (the Furnace). GAL-CLUS-022058s is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our universe. The object has been nicknamed by astronomers studying this Einstein ring as the "Molten Ring," which alludes to its appearance and host constellation. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

The “molten ring” that Hubble saw

Neptune's inner moons Naiad and Thalassa enable them to avoid each other as they race around the planet. (NASA)

Neptune's strange, "dancing" moons

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The planet where it rains sunscreen

Keith A. Spencer

Grace Guarnieri

(NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team)

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