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A richly detailed glimpse into the stellar environment of the Lagoon Nebula, also known as Messier 8.
(Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
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What do you think awaits the universe in the distant future: a Big Freeze, a Big Crunch, or another outcome?
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Meet the Lion Nebula, shaped by the remains of a dying star. Webb reveals glowing gas, dust shells, and remarkable comet-like clumps.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
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Science explains why people gain weight as they age: universal-sci.com/headlines/…
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Amazing: Hubble’s view of Uranus’ aurorae helped astronomers measure the planet’s rotation with 1,000 times greater accuracy than previous estimates.
(Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Lamy, L. Sromovsky)
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The Surprising Genetic Reason You Hate Certain Vegetables: universal-sci.com/headlines/…
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A Moon Making Its Mark!
This incredible image shows Pan, a tiny moon of Saturn, travelling within the rings and carving out a route through the icy debris.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill)
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Fascinating: 130 million light-years away, NGC 5714 cuts a razor-thin profile in Boötes. This galaxy hosted the calcium-rich supernova SN 2003dr, part of a strange and poorly understood class of stellar explosions.
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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Three Worlds, One View!
A VLT Auxiliary Telescope sits beneath the Moon as sunset lights a delicate sliver of the lunar surface. The bright point above is Venus, the second planet from the Sun.
(Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO)
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Something Is Changing 4,000 Metres Beneath the Mediterranean, and Scientists Didn’t Expect It to Reach This Deep: universal-sci.com/article/a-…
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Scientists Tracked the Sleep of 95,559 People.
What They Found Suggests 8 Hours Is Only Part of the Story
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Still Tired After 8 Hours of Sleep?
This Common Night-time Habit Could Be Why: universal-sci.com/article/fe…
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Mesmerizing: NGC 346, a star-forming region stretching about 200 light-years across.
(Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Nota (ESA/STScI) et al.)
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Intriguing: some 500 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy pair II ZW 96 is undergoing a dramatic merger.
The collision has twisted and disrupted their structure
(Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans)
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Striking. The sun casts a dazzling glow across the Celebes Sea in Southeast Asia.
(Credit: NASA Johnson)
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Fascinating: An alternative view of the world where countries are drawn according to population distribution, not land distribution.
(Credit: Max Roser/Our World in Data)
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The Strange Medical Condition That Proves a Broken Heart Isn’t Just a Metaphor: universal-sci.com/headlines/…
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