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A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve ...
Two enormous space rocks have slammed together in a nearby planetary system, and for the first time astronomers have watched ...
NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...
Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other scientific instruments.