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Elephant Trunk Nebula with twisting columns and glowing filaments was captured by Terry Hancock, offering a spectacular ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

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The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located some 15 000 light-years away from Earth," according to the European ...

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The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

Two members of the Guardians team are reportedly expected to shape the storyline of Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. A new ...

Unsolved mysteries spark curiosity, and for The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Prof of Physics Li Hua-bai, this curiosity is the foundation of scientific exploration.

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