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Shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus). (Photo by Konrad Schmidt)
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A view of the night sky from Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The bright star at top left is Sirius, the brightest star other than the Sun as seen from Earth. The bright star at right is Canopus, which happens to be the second brightest…
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Looking toward the core of Milky Way, along a line of sight holding millions of stars in the disk of the Galaxy and obscuring dark bands of dust. (Credit: NASA)
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The Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram, which plots stars' temperatures (x axis) against their luminosities (y axis). Numerous examples of stars in the Milky Way are included in this sample diagram. (Credit: ESO)
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An artist's impression of the sizes and appearances of a typical Sunlike star, a low-mass star, a brown dwarf, and a gas giant planet. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
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The Jewel Box open cluster (Kappa Crucis), which lies next to the Crux (Southern Cross) constellation. (Credit: ESO)
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Globular cluster 47 Tucanae, one of the grandest in the Milky Way Galaxy, containing over 1 million stars, seen here by the Hubble Space Telescope. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgment: J.…
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Hubble Space Telescope images of the star known as V1, which U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble (the telescope's namesake) discovered in 1923. Hubble used this Cepheid variable to show that a faint, fuzzy patch in the constellation Andromeda is actually…
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Hubble Space Telescope image of the Ring Nebula in Lyra, a planetary nebula made of glowing ionized gas that surrounds a hot blue star. [Credit: H. Bond et al., Hubble Heritage Team (STScI /AURA), NASA]
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A multi-wavelength view of the Crab Nebula. The pulsar at its heart appears as a white dot in this image. The image compiles observations in radio waves via the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), infrared light via the Spitzer Space Telescope.…
