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Check Out Some of The Largest Space Images Ever From Euclid
Euclid’s visible imager boasts a staggering 600 million pixels. Check out its recent images.
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Shell Galaxy Reveals Its Onion-Like Layers to Dark Energy Camera
Behold a galactic onion: the shell galaxy NGC 3923, spotted by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory’s Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at a distance of about 70 million light-years from Earth. Shell galaxies make up approximately 10% of all elliptical galaxies, one of the three main galaxy types. The other two types are spiral galaxies, like…
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Decoding Dark Matter and Energy: What You Need to Know About the Euclid Mission Launching This Weekend
Together, dark matter and dark energy comprise 95% of the known universe, yet scientists don’t know what they are. The Euclid telescope, set to launch to space from Florida on Saturday, may help decipher them.
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Gigantic ‘Blinking’ Star Presents a Cosmic Mystery
For a period of several months, a huge star located more than 25,000 light-years from Earth got increasingly dimmer before eventually returning to its usual brightness. An obstruction of some kind likely caused this strange effect, but astronomers aren’t exactly sure what it is.