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Space photo of the week: A young star sweeps up its cosmic neighborhood in vibrant new Hubble imageThe Hubble Space Telescope's latest image is a riot of orange, blue and violet — and a lesson in how plucky young stars clear their dusty neighborhoods.
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Star-killing 'black hole wind' spotted in a distant galaxy could explain a major mystery at the Milky Way's centerFor the first time, scientists discovered a powerful 'black hole wind' that blew through a nearby galaxy for hundreds of days, crushing star formation and reshaping the galaxy. Something similar may already have happened in the Milky Way.
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Space photo of the week: Hubble catches a 'baseball galaxy' with a black hole heartESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy with an almost perfectly round disk and an active black hole lighting up its starry guts.
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How do galaxies grow while ensnared in the universe's cosmic web?New simulations show how thousands of galaxies evolve by traveling through the strands of gas, dust and stars that make up the universe's "cosmic web."
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Hubble tracks farthest and most powerful fast radio burst back to 'blob' of 7 galaxiesThe most powerful and distant fast radio burst ever seen has been tracked to a "blob" of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than half its current age.
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Scientists find ultra-rare collection of molecules in 2 ancient galaxies from the early universeScientists discovered 13 molecules, including some never spotted before in the early universe, inside two galaxies located 12 billion light-years away.
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How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.
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James Webb telescope finds 'vanishing' galaxy from the dawn of the universeThe early galaxy AzTECC71 is so far away it keeps disappearing from telescope observations. A new study by the James Webb Space Telescope finally pins it down.
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How to see the bright Andromeda Galaxy shine overhead this weekLocated about 2.5 million light-years from our solar system, Andromeda is the most distant object visible to the naked eye.
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