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This image, which combines infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope with submillimetre observations from the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), shows the doughnut-shaped torus and interconnected bubbles of dusty gas that surround the Butterfly Nebula’s central star. The torus is oriented vertically and nearly edge-on from our perspective, and it intersects with bubbles of gas enclosing the star. The bubbles appear bright red in this image, illuminated by the light from helium and
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Cosmic butterfly reveals clues to Earth's creation
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Fresh twist to mystery of Jupiter's core
An artist's impression of the UPM J1040−3551 system against the backdrop of the Milky Way as observed by Gaia.
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Rare quadruple star system could unlock mystery of brown dwarfs
The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe shaped ring by distortions in spacetime created by the immense mass of the foreground orange galaxy.
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'Most massive black hole ever discovered' is detected
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