Space...the final Frontier
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Magellanic clouds photographed in the Atacama Desert, Chile (Image: Reproduction/Felipe Mac Auliffe López)
The two bright, fuzzy shapes in this photo are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, located 160,000 and 210,000 light-years from us, respectively. They are the brightest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and can be seen in the sky of the southern hemisphere.
Both are galaxies classified as "irregular dwarfs" and have bar structures at their centers.
Nicholas
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this is an apparent diagram by NASA of the size comparison of the newly discovered ‘gigantic’ black hole found by UK scientists using a technique called gravitational lensing and confirmed by the Hubble Space Telescope, really puts into perspective how small and insignificant we really are in this colossal cosmos.
More info> https://amp.cnn.com/.../ultramassive-black.../index.html
Nicholas
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Webb Space Telescope detects universe's most distant complex organic molecules
Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth—the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist. Thanks to the capabilities of the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and careful analyses from the...
Nicholas
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NASA's Juno mission spots eerie green light on Jupiter: Here's what scientists think it is
NASA's Juno mission captured an image of a green light coming from Jupiter. Here's what NASA thinks it is.
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Seldom Bucket
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