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ALMA's DV-59 antenna in the foreground with multiple other antennas observing the sky in a night dominated by the Moon.
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Could alien signals be hiding on a different radio channel?
Aurora borealis seen over Cwmbran, Wales, produced by the May 2024 solar storm. 
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NAM 2026: Most powerful Northern Lights in a generation 'exposed weaknesses in UK infrastructure'
Image from HST showing the bipolar outflow of material ejected by the helium nova V445 Puppis. The progenitor binary star system is just about visible in the centre of the outflow. Also visible are the 'bullets' of gas that were shot out at either end of the outflow. Image taken in 2013 with the F502N filter on Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.
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NAM 2026: Mystery 'bullets' seen in Milky Way's only helium nova
Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at z=1.2) and had a disc flip (you can see this by comparing the disc orientation at z=1.4 and z=0). This image and Image 2 show how these two exemplary galaxies evolve with time: each panel corresponds to a different time defined by redshift (z). Redshift is a quantity used by astronomers to measure the time in the universe, with z=0 corresponding to the present day, and larger z corresponding to earlier times. Each z has two pan
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NAM 2026: How our Milky Way once underwent a dramatic flip
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