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The Best Space Images of 2023
Space is an inky black yonder… but for the countless light sources that pepper the billions of light-years that human instruments can see. Thanks to ground-based telescopes and observatories parked millions of miles from Earth, 2023 has been a terrific year for space imagery. Astronomers captured fascinating new views of globular clusters, star systems, and…
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Journey Through the Cosmos With These Breathtaking Astronomy Images
The Royal Observatory Greenwich in the UK announced the winners of its annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition last week, and the final group of photographers doesn’t disappoint. From phantasmal swirls of gas and dust to stupendous shots of our luminous Moon—and other moons, too—the images offer a sweeping looks at some of the…
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The Webb Space Telescope’s Best Images, One Year On
The Webb Space Telescope launched to space in December 2021 with an ambitious goal: providing scientists with a deeper, sharper view of the history of the universe. It took the telescope a month to arrive at its location in space, a region called L2 that sits one million miles from Earth, and another six months…
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Let’s Talk About the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 End-Credit Scenes
He didn’t even need to, but James Gunn teased the future of the Marvel franchise in two end-credit scenes.