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Water in the universe may have formed closer to the Big Bang than previously thought
We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
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Space photo of the week: The last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for half a million years
Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
What Shape Is the Universe?
When you look around the universe you live in, it looks like a 3D space, just like the surface of the Earth looks like a 2D ...
Mapping the universe and space weather; 2 NASA satellites launch on big science mission
NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will launch on Friday, February 28, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, with SPHEREx creating a ...
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Spectacular Photos of Space: See Our View of the Universe
In the stunning new book Universe: Exploring the Astronomical ... Dark Miracles (c.1550): Comets are portents of terrible things—or so it was explained in the 1550 German publication The ...