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"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.
See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...
Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by ...
The galaxy LEDA 1313424 has been nicknamed the Bullseye Galaxy, thanks to the nine rings that circle its bright center.
A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...
Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...
Uranus’ moons are darker on their leading sides due to space dust, not radiation damage. Titania and Oberon show cosmic “bug splatter,” changing how we understand this tilted world’s mysterious ...
A new cosmic deep field map from the COSMOS collaboration, powered by the James Webb Space Telescope, is rewriting what ...
New Hubble observations reveal unexpected darkening on Uranus’ moons, challenging long-held assumptions about its ...
For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the ...