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Mega-structures viewed again.
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Photo-animations and space science.
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Space telescopes employ infrared sensors to view the stars.
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A 'grand design' millions of light-years away.
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The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are on a collision course. Andromeda --the only galaxy that can be seen with the naked eye --is on a course to collide with us billions of years from now. If you ever wondered what colliding galaxies might look like, check out this Hubble photo:
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In honor of the 15th anniversary in 2005 for the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA released a photograph of the Fairy Pillar, part of the Eagle Nebula. The entire nebula is a stellar nursery where many new stars are forming. At one point, gravity will collapse the nebula inward to the new stars.
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The Fairy Pillar is one of many ...
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Today is Neptune's birthday. It only gets a birthday once every 164 years, since that how long it takes to orbit the sun.
That's what a birthday is, after all. Once around our big ball of fire.
Neptune, one of the Solar System's gas giants has just completed its only orbit around the sun since being discovered in 1846.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured these fine, new, celebratory photos of the blue-green planet:
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