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New data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has allowed astronomers to travel back in time to the dawn of the universe.

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

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Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...

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The Euclid space telescope has dropped its first data and deep field observations showing millions of galaxies in great ...

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Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.