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Scientists discover giant galaxy 32 times bigger than Earth's — and they named it 'trouble'Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or "trouble," as the team struggles to understand the physics behind it.
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Something invisible and 'fuzzy' may lurk at the Milky Way's center, new research suggestsThe cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star made of mysterious "fuzzy" matter.
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Space photo of the week: The tilted spiral galaxy that took Hubble 23 years to captureIn this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its unusually big bulge.
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The fabric of the universe is 'lopsided', huge gravitational wave mapping study findsA new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and lopsided picture of the universe.
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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Chandra spot a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' sparkling in the galaxy next doorThere's a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' hanging in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb and Chandra telescopes revealed in a sparkly new image.
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope spots a secret star factory in the Sombrero GalaxyThis week, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the iconic Sombrero Galaxy, revealing the first-ever mid-infrared observations of the hat-shaped wonder.
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Space photo of the week: Hubble uncovers the true identity of an odd galaxy — and it's not spiral or ellipticalThe Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its classification.
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'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claimsThe James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for how physics may work on large scales, according to a team of astronomers.
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious 'red monster' galaxies so large they shouldn't existThe James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're so large they could rewrite the laws of galactic evolution.
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