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A 150-million-year-old look at a spectacular spiral

17 January 2022 Astronomy Now

The Hubble Space Telescope is adept at spotting supernova blasts in remote galaxies, helping astronomers pin down the cosmic distance scale. Galaxy NGC 976 it a typically spectacular example of a Hubble target.

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The Flame Nebula shines in mesmerising SuperCam image of Orion

5 January 2022 Astronomy Now

The Flame Nebula in Orion, photobombed by the Horsehead Nebula, blazes in a newly processed image captured by the SuperCam instrument at the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment.

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Hubble Space Telescope completes its annual ‘grand tour’ of the Solar System

13 December 2021 Astronomy Now

The Hubble Space Telescope takes its annual tour of the outer planets, capturing spectacular views of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to help astronomers monitor their always changing weather patterns.

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Curiosity Mars rover beams back ‘artistic’ postcard view of Gale Crater

26 November 2021 Astronomy Now

Pausing on the slopes of Mount Sharp, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover set back two black-and-white panoramas that were colourised to provide an “artistic” view looking back along its recent path with the rim of Gale Crater rising in the distance.

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Apparent galactic train wreck actually widely separated galaxies in chance alignment

17 November 2021 Astronomy Now

Examples of colliding galaxies are commonplace, but chance alignments showing apparent collisions between widely separated galaxies are more rare, but equally spectacular.

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A mysterious ‘superbubble’ carved in the heart of a glowing emission nebula

3 November 2021 Astronomy Now

A 250-light-year-wide superbubble in an emission nebular hints at unseen processes at work to carve out a void in glowing clouds of hydrogen gas an dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Looking into the dusty shroud of a dying star

31 October 2021 Astronomy Now

The Hubble Space Telescope provides an intriguing Halloween view of the dusty shroud enveloping a carbon-rich star burning through the last of its nuclear fuel.

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Mars rover captures sharp view of Jezero Crater in stunning mosaic

21 October 2021 Astronomy Now

NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a razor-sharp mosaic showing its view across the floor of Jezero Crater, including remnants of a delta where water once flowed into a broad lake that may have provided a habitable environment for microbial life.

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Star birth and death in the Large Magellanic Cloud

28 September 2021 Astronomy Now

ESO’s Very Large Telescope captures NGC 2035 in the Large Magellanic Cloud where hot young stars are forming in a stellar nursery shaped like a dragon’s head. At the other extreme: the remnants of a supernova blast.

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Hubble images showcase two faces of a luminous blue variable

19 September 2021 Astronomy Now

Vast clouds of gas and dust shrouding the luminous blue variable star AG Carinae are revealed in all their subtle glory in new views from the Hubble Space Telescope that reprise the observatory’s 21st anniversary image.

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