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Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

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The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been one of humanity's most incredible tools for unlocking the secrets of the universe. For ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...