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Beautiful nebula, violent history: Clash of stars solves stellar mystery

When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were…

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New 1.5-billion-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail

While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern…

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The Running Chicken Nebula shimmers in new ESO image

A nebula can look like a lot of different animals—a crab, tarantula, seagull, a cat’s eye, and even a chicken…

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Strange nebula changes colour rhythmically like a mood lamp

An unidentified light source named VVV-WIT-12 (centre) seems to be making two sides of a nebula (circles either side) brighten…

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The Crab Nebula seen in new light by NASA’s Webb

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the…

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