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Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons

NASA'S Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming Countryside

New views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, far from its crowded core.

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artistic depiction of early universe

Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among Earliest ...

Astronomers has discovered evidence of a significant number of black holes that accompanied the first stars in the universe.

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Hubble image reveals a disk of previously ejected material around an erupting star being illuminated by a torrent of light unleashed during a stellar outburst

Hubble Maps 3-D Structure of Ejected Material Around ...

A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova.

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UV mosaic of LMC

Swift Produces Best UV Maps of Nearest Galaxies

The new UV surveys are the most detailed ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the Milky Way's closest neighbor galaxies.

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SOFIA/FORCAST mid-infrared image of the Milky Way galaxy’s nucleus showing the Circumnuclear Ring (CNR) of gas and dust clouds orbiting a central supermassive black hole.

SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts In Galaxy's Center

Researchers using NASA's SOFIA flying observatory capture new images of a huge ring of gas and dust surrounding the Milky Way's massive black hole.

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