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Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seenA stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, reveals the intricacies of galactic systems.
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James Webb telescope spots tiny galaxies that may have transformed the universeThe James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of tiny, distant galaxies piercing the fog of the cosmic dark age in the first billion years after the Big Bang.
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Catastrophic collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not happen after all, new study hintsAstronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new calculations suggest this may be an over exaggeration.
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Space photo of the week: Violent galaxies seen 'jousting' near the dawn of timeThe new image shows one galaxy piercing another with intense quasar radiation. Astronomers likened the violent galaxy collision to a medieval joust.
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Trippy supercomputer simulation offers unprecedented view of the space between starsA groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.
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The rarest black holes in the universe may be 'wandering' our galaxyDozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could help solve a longstanding cosmic puzzle.
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Space photo of the week: Cotton candy clouds shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images everThe Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Space photo of the week: Bizarre 1-armed spiral galaxy stuns Hubble scientistsAstronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.
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Space photo of the week: Record-breaking James Webb telescope image captures 1,678 galaxy groups at onceAstronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to 12 billion light-years away.
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