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A colorful nebula. The image’s top-left is filled with layers of fluffy pink and greenish clouds. Long strands of green clouds stretch out from here; a faint layer of translucent blue dust combines with them to create a three-dimensional scene. A sparse network of dark dust clouds in the foreground adds reddish-black patches atop the nebula. Blue-white and orange stars, from our galaxy and beyond, are spread throughout the clouds.

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Hubble Captures a Tarantula – NASA Science

August 8, 2025

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called…

A top-down view of a spiral galaxy, showing its brightly-shining center, its broad spiral arms, and the faint halo around its disk, as well as distant galaxies and stars on a dark background. Large blue clouds of gas speckled with small stars and strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s disk. A couple of the background galaxies are large enough that their own swirling spiral arms are visible.

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Hubble Surveys Supernova-Rich Spiral – NASA Science

August 1, 2025

Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309…

NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse

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NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse

July 23, 2025

A century-old hypothesis that Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky, is orbited by a very…