A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...