the universe
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Hubble Captures Image Of A Truly Warped ‘Dragon’
An ambitious use of the Hubble Space Telescope hopes to map some of the biggest, brightest and furthest galaxies to understand the structure of our universe. Above is a picture from that survey, featuring a strange, warped feature called the Dragon.
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Hints Of The First Stars Seen In 13-Billion-Year-Old Oxygen
Scientists have spotted 13-billion-year-old oxygen in a distant galaxy – a signal of stars forming during the universe’s earliest days.
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The Making Of ‘Pillars Of Creation’, One Of The Most Amazing Images Of Our Universe
Three pillars of gas and dust sit among stars like towers of billowing smoke. It would take several years for light to cross from the top to the bottom of these dusty columns. This striking image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope remains, to this day, one of the most well-known astronomical images ever taken.
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New Results Challenge Basic Ideas Of Supermassive Black Holes
Galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres – our Milky Way, for example, has its own four-million-solar-mass one, Sagittarius A*. Some astronomers have previously thought that there’s a simple relationship between the galaxy’s size, the black hole’s mass, and how much light the black hole spits out while it eats up the things surrounding…