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This image was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on 1 January 2019 during a flyby of Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, known as Arrokoth.
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Why some objects in space look like snowmen
An artist’s impression of the stellar dimming event caused by a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter with massive rings (foreground) forming an opaque “saucer” through which some light from the star ASASSN-24fw (background) shines.
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Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star
Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds around a dense core of dark matter.
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'Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart'
A composite RGB image of the Ring Nebula (also known as Messier 57 and NGC 6720) constructed from four WEAVE/LIFU emission-line images.
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Mysterious iron 'bar' discovered in famous nebula
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