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This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

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A decade-long cosmic mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have traced strange, repeating radio pulses to an unusual ...

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Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia ...

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