FP trending29 Aug 29, 2020 21:01:26 IST The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared the image of “a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave,” which has taken the Internet by storm. Comparing the image to magic, the space agency wrote that the image, which looks like …
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A newly released image of the comet NEOWISE shows that it survived its encounter with the sun intact. The image, made by the Hubble Space Telescope on August 8, shows the dust and gas coming out of the comet as it formed behind the sun. This glow measures about 11,000 …
Read More »A close-up view of comet NEOWISE, taken by Hubble on August 8th.Image: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (Caltech), and A. Pagan (STScI Comets do not always survive their stay in the inner solar system, but a new close-up image suggests that the comet NEOWISE – the brightest in decades – has …
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The loving spiral arms of the “flocculent” galaxy NGC 2775, 67 million light-years away in the … [+] constellation of cancer. ESA / Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team Recognition: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla) Are we bored by the Hubble spaceships? Ask any space fan what their favorite …
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The smoking gun (in a sense, literally) may have been found for the reason why Betelgeuse, everyone’s favorite red supergiant star, evaporated so dramatically earlier this year: Dust. A lot of it. It’s been 75 years since 2020, here’s an update: Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the …
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