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Feeling small is nice if you just go with it and pretend you’re an atom being sucked into the void, without bills or adult friendships to worry over.
Supernovas have been captured before. But the singular moment right before the star dies has never been seen before the way it has now.
The new dataset is made up of 21 400 shots that took two years to take, containing a staggering 3,32 billion celestial objects.
South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has been hard at work uncovering a large galaxy group, which is likely the most neutral hydrogen gas-rich group ever discovered.
Scientists have uncovered evidence of a black hole at the centre of our galaxy. They’ve also managed snap a pic of it using the Very Large Telescope.
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Have you ever wondered what the universe would look like on a single photo? You did!? Well, what a coincidence, because NASA has just released this infrared map of the entire universe. This serves as a capstone for a bigger cosmic map – containing 18 000 images and 560 million different objects. It took NASA fourteen years of preparation and three years of data collection.