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Flocculent spiral NGC 2841:Star formation is one of the most important processes in shaping the Universe

This is an artist’s impression of the gas giant exoplanet WASP-121b. The bloated planet is so close to its star that the tidal pull of the star stretches it into an egg shape.

This image shows the galaxy Messier 94, which lies in the small northern constellation of the

This graphic plots exoplanets based on their size and distance from their star. Each dot represents an exoplanet. Planets the size of Jupiter (located at the top of the graphic) and planets

The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars.

This is an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showing a vast, complex dust structure, about 240 billion kilometres across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A.

This is the first image of a celestial object taken with the newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)

The layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star

This artists’s cartoon view gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. The planets, their orbits and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real separations.




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