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star clustersstar clusters

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The spectacular Sombrero galaxy

Plus: the chance of the Milky Way and Andromeda colliding just went up. Maybe.

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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A galaxy aflame!

JWST image of NGC 5134 is fire. Also, using real AI to find galaxies.

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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Another gorgeous Hubble galaxy, but it has many secrets

NGC 7722 is a weird hybrid of galaxy types. What does that tell us?

Philip Plait

the Sunthe Sun

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Solar eclipse seen from space!

Also, a small galaxy may be currently ramming through the Milky Way, so there’s that too

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A galaxy collision got me digging, Goodbye Tiktok, Project for Awesome

Sometimes mistakes lead to cool astronomy stuff.

Philip Plait

miscellanymiscellany

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A faint stream of stars is being pulled out of the nearby galaxy M61

Also: a free audiobook featuring my dulcet voicebox

Philip Plait

astrophotographyastrophotography

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Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood

Weird arcing cloud of oxygen is most likely part of the Milky Way, not our giant neighbor

Philip Plait

dustdust

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Powers of Chandra and JWST unite!

The two great telescopes combine to make amazing science and gorgeous images

Philip Plait

cosmologycosmology

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A Little Red Dot may be a mostly naked supermassive black hole

This has implications for how such behemoths form in the first place

Philip Plait

astrophotographyastrophotography

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It’s an umbrella, but it’s a hundred thousand light-years long

Galaxy collisions do really weird things

Philip Plait

Hubble Space TelescopeHubble Space Telescope

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An incredible JWST image of an immense city of galaxies

Abell S1063 is a jaw-dropping example of the power of the big telescope

Philip Plait

cosmologycosmology

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The Owl Galaxies are hiding a secret in plain sight. But what is it?

It might be a supermassive black hole, or it might be a bazillion newborn stars

Philip Plait