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Hubble Marks 36 Years With New Trifid Nebula Image Showing Change

Upgraded instruments let Hubble track visible change in a star-forming cloud.

Hubble Marks 36 Years With Sharper Trifid Nebula Portrait That Shows Change

Astronomers Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

TESS Reveals Most Compact 3+1 Quadruple-Star System Yet

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

ESO/ALMA Unveil Largest, Sharpest Radio Map of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

Chandra Maps Hot Astrosphere Around Young Sun-Like Star HD 61005

Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

New Images and Holiday Sky Guides Spotlight the Christmas Tree Cluster

Hubble Reveals Largest Known Planet-Forming Disk, 'Dracula’s Chivito'

Galaxies Are Cooling as Star Birth Slows, New Euclid–Herschel Analysis Suggests

GRAVITY+ Laser Guide Stars Open Southern Sky for VLTI After First Tests

Euclid Reveals Orion's Hidden Stars in New Infrared Image From Guiding Test

ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

eROSITA Map Reveals Interstellar Tunnel From Local Hot Bubble Toward Centaurus

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

ESA Releases Gaia-Based 3D Map of Local Milky Way Star-Forming Regions

Roman Telescope Details Plan to Map 20 Billion Milky Way Stars

Gaia Data Yields Most Accurate 3D Map of Nearby Stellar Nurseries