Just 12 million light-years away, the galaxies Messier 81 and 82 offer a nearby preview of the Milky Way-Andromeda merger.
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Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago. Dubbed the “Great Eruption,” the outburst first caught the attention of sky watchers in 1837 and was observed through 1858. via Buzzfeed
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of distant galaxy NGC 4889, home to a supermassive black hole measuring 21 billion times the size of the Sun.
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Cosmic eye candy. This week marks the anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope way back in 1990. Thanks, Hubble, for providing us with "whoa" fodder for 22 years!
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