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Cosmic Fireworks: Hubble’s Stunning Portrait of a Dying Star
Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...
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Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space
A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...
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Harvard Scientists to Help Lead NASA’s New SPHEREx Mission
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...
Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...
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Crumbs of Creation: Formation of the Oort Cloud
During the planet formation process, smaller objects — including asteroids and comets — were drawn to the outer edges of the solar system. These became an immense cloud called the Oort cloud.