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In this illustration, an asteroid (at bottom left) breaks apart under the powerful gravity of a bright sphere at the center of an orange disk ,representing LSPM J0207+3331, the oldest, coldest white dwarf known to be surrounded by a ring of dusty debris. Scientists think the system’s infrared signal is best explained by two distinct rings composed of dust supplied by crumbling asteroids.

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Illustration of an alien probe in dark space

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A rocket blasting off into space

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Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns

Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns Space5 days ago

People (in silhouette) gather to watch the moon rise over the Glastonbury Levels

How to See Tonight's Beaver Supermoon – The Biggest And Brightest Since 2019 Space5 days ago

The image features a dark background with a thin, bright horizontal line running across the centre. This is our galaxy’s disc. Above and below this line, numerous white arrows point upward and downward. These arrows vary in length and are spread evenly along the line. Scattered among the arrows are small red and blue dots. The visual resembles an astronomical data visualisation, illustrating positions and motions of stars in our galaxy.

A Colossal Wave Is Rippling Through The Milky Way, Gaia Data Reveals Space5 days ago

An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. This black hole represents a recently-discovered quasar powered by a black hole. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at a rate that exceeds the usual limit for black holes, called the Eddington Limit.

The Early Universe Let Black Holes Break The Rules, Briefly Space5 days ago

Sun Close-up Showing Solar Surface Activity and Corona

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Comet 3IATLAS streaks across a dense star field, in an image composed of exposures taken through three filters, shown here as red, green, and blue.

Why Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Looks So Weird – And Why It's Not Aliens Space6 days ago

Tesla in Australia Struck by Mystery Object And It Could Be a World First (Updated)

Tesla in Australia Struck by Mystery Object And It Could Be a World First (Updated) Space1 week ago

Our Universe Was Twice as Hot 7 Billion Years Ago, Study Reveals

Our Universe Was Twice as Hot 7 Billion Years Ago, Study Reveals Space1 week ago

At the center of the image is a comet that appears as a teardrop-shaped bluish cocoon of dust coming off the comet’s solid, icy nucleus and seen against a black background. The comet appears to be heading to the bottom left corner of the image. About a dozen short, light blue diagonal streaks are seen scattered across the image, which are from background stars that appeared to move during the exposure because the telescope was tracking the moving comet.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS's Blue Shine Is Surprising Astronomers Space1 week ago

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