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Originally suspected to be the first directly detected planet outside our Solar System follow up observations have shown that the object is most likely a background star whose light is has been dimmed and reddened by interstellar dust.

The ghostly shells of galaxy ESO 381-12 are captured here in a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, set against a backdrop of distant galaxies.

Star clusters are common structures throughout the Universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity.

This stunning image from Hubble shows the majestic galaxy NGC 1015, found nestled within the constellation of Cetus (The Whale) 118 million light-years from Earth.

The atmosphere of the distant warm Neptune HAT-P-26b, illustrated here in an artist’s impression, is unexpectedly primitive, composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.

Fomalhaut b in 2012

The heart has its own brain. Now, scientists have drawn a detailed map of this little brain, called the intracardiac nervous system, in rat hearts.

This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

A size comparison of the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, lined up in order of increasing distance from their host star




falling chemical symbols


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