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Space photo of the week: Hubble spots a stellar 'H-bomb' exploding in Aquarius at 1 million mphA pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Space photo of the week: Webb telescope spies 'super star cluster'Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Space photo of the week: See the gorgeous Rosette Nebula — before it destroys itselfThe Dark Energy Camera imaged the Rosette Nebula, capturing a kaleidoscope of color created by the star cluster born within it.
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Space photo of the week: Easter Island's last 'ring of fire' eclipse for 320 yearsOct. 2's annular solar eclipse saw a small-looking new moon cross the face of the sun to create a perfect circle for about six minutes.
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Space photo of the week: Hot young suns glow blue, white and orange in the Lobster NebulaThe massive star-forming complex known as the Lobster Nebula is part of the biggest infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever created.
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Space photo of the week: Entangled galaxies form cosmic smiley face in new James Webb telescope imageA new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.
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Space photo of the week: Space X's Polaris Dawn astronauts 'touch the void' on 1st-ever private spacewalkSpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut Jared Isaacman briefly "touched the void" as he embarked on the first-ever private spacewalk Thursday (Sept. 12).
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Space photo of the week: The 1st image of an alien planetThe Very Large Telescope in northern Chile imaged a "super-Jupiter" exoplanet called 2M1207b, precisely 20 years ago this week. This was the first direct visual confirmation of a world beyond our solar system.
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Space photo of the week: Milky Way's galactic twin captured by Dark Energy CameraNGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother’.
