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An intriguing colour composite image of RCW120 revealing a bubble of ionized gas, roughly ten light-years across, driving the collapse of nearby material into dense clumps that form new stars. Credit: ESO/APEX/DSS2/ SuperCosmos/ Deharveng(LAM)/ Zavagno(LAM)

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''Two possibilities exist, either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying'' -- Arthur C. Clarke

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Swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. At about 160 000 light-years away it is one of the nearest galaxies (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, N. Bartmann - Music: Stellardrone - Ascent)

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At the time of its discovery, Andromeda was mistaken for a nebula because we believed our galaxy was the whole universe. Eventually, we realized it was actually a separate galaxy, twice as large as the Milky Way!

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Modern Life Is Making Your Brain Deteriorate Faster Here Is What You Can Do: www.universal-sci.com/article/how-...

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A Cosmic Beauty: This magnificent image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the spiral galaxy NGC 5643, nestled within the constellation Lupus (the Wolf). (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani)

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Interesting fact: On march 23rd 2178 Pluto will complete only its first full orbit around the sun since its discovery! (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)

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Titan, a moon of Saturn Titan is the only known moon with a dense atmosphere, which is primarily nitrogen (like Earth’s). In fact, its atmosphere is denser than Earth’s by a factor of about 1.5, creating a hazy, orange-coloured sky. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill)

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Would you be excited or anxious if it turned out that life on Earth is not unique in the universe (be it microbial or otherwise)? bsky.app/profile/univ...

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Hope for Finding Life on Mars - A Breakthrough in Detecting Ancient Organisms: www.universal-sci.com/article/hope...

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An awe-inspiring view of the Pillars of Creation, with radiant young stars cutting through the dark clouds of dust and gas, captured in infrared. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)

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An incredible closeup of the vortex at Saturn's north pole captured by the Cassini space probe! (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / Alexis Tranchandon / Solaris)

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This stunning view of Orion’s cosmic clouds reveals what appears to be a flaming ribbon in the sky. The orange light is the subtle glow of cold interstellar dust, shining at wavelengths too long for human eyes to detect. (Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2)

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This stunning view of Messier 78, captured by ESA's Euclid telescope, reveals a vibrant star nursery cloaked in interstellar dust.. (Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi)

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The sky you see at night is a window into the past... The stars you see shone thousands to billions of years ago, their light only now reaching your eyes.

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There could be trillions of them... What is a rogue planet? www.universal-sci.com/article/what...

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Fascinating: DN 1768, a dark ribbon of cosmic dust winding through the constellation Ophiuchus, is home to forming stars. These protostars emit a faint submillimetre glow—inching closer to the moment when nuclear fusion will ignite, marking their birth as true stars (Credit: ESO)

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IC 4406, also known as the Retina Nebula, is a dying star. If you could navigate around it in a starship, you would witness a massive torus of gas and dust expanding outward. (Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); C.R. O'Dell - Vanderbilt University)

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Spectacular: Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole seen in infrared (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM)

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Interesting fact: Auroras on Jupiter can cover areas bigger than Earth!

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Interesting fact: Because earth's rotation is slowing down, today is about 0.00000002 seconds longer than yesterday

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Hydrogen Beneath Mountains A Hidden Resource for Clean Energy: www.universal-sci.com/article/natu...

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An incredible edge on view of the “UFO Galaxy” (NGC 2683) NGC 2683 is often called the "UFO Galaxy" due to its nearly edge-on orientation, which makes it resemble a classic flying saucer. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)

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Some perspective: This is the size of Earth relative to our sun...

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Incredible: A collection of multi-planet systems discovered within the Milky Way by the Kepler Space Telescope (Credit: Ethan Kruse/NASA Goddard)

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The Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Is More Active Than Thought: www.universal-sci.com/article/the-...

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Why Do Some People Remember Their Dreams While Others Don't? www.universal-sci.com/article/swhy...

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A view of 30 Doradus combining infrared data showing stars and hot gas with radio observations revealing star-forming cold gas. (Credit: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Wong et al., ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

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Gorgeous video portrait of a Globular Cluster (Credit: NASA & ESA)

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'The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision' - Randall Munroe

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Why microbes and not humans should be the first 'Earthly pioneers' to settle on Mars: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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A Night of Meteors & Auroras as seen from the International Space Station! (Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center)

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Feast your eyes on the extraordinary spectacle of Pismis 24-1, a colossal star system embedded in the radiant emission nebula NGC 6357. (Credit: NASA, ESA, Jesœs Maz Apellÿniz, Davide De Martin)

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Breathtaking: The star formation region NGC 6559 (Credit: ESO, U.G. Jørgensen)

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Interesting: NGC 3718, a highly disturbed spiral galaxy with an unusual, warped shape that looks a bit like a plump letter “s” from Earth. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Ho (Peking University); Image Processing: Gladys Kober - NASA/Catholic University of America)

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A striking to-scale comparison of the liquid water volumes on Earth, Europa, and Titan (Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo/NASA)

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The beautiful and complex structures in the spiral galaxy IC 5332 (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-HST Teams)

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Is Human Intelligence Inevitable? New Study Suggests We’re Not That Special: www.universal-sci.com/article/inte...

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A breathtaking close-up of star formation at work! In NGC 6729, young stars launch material at extraordinary speeds of up to one million km/h, carving the surrounding dust and gas into stunning formations. (Credit: ESO/Sergey Stepanenko)

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A view of the absolutely breathtaking spiral galaxy NGC 1317 This galaxy is one of a pair, but NGC 1317’s rowdy larger neighbour NGC 1316 lies outside Hubble’s field of view (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team)

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Spectacular! Eta Carinae was the site of a giant outburst about 150 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky Scientists predict that it will explode as a supernova in the future, but the exact timing is uncertain.. (Credit: J. Morse (Univ. of Colorado)/NASA)

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Could noise-cancelling be harming your brain? www.universal-sci.com/article/can-...

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The Spaceline: an Elevator From the Earth to the Moon: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

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Striking: IC 1396A, known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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Behold the fascinating ring galaxy, AM 0644-741! Its sparkling blue ring is 150,000 light-years in diameter, making it larger than our entire home galaxy, the Milky Way! (Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team - AURA/STScI)

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The breathtaking star-forming region RCW 108 in Ara, about 4,000 light-years from Earth. (Credit: ESO)

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