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Astronomers pulled from James Webb Space Telescope’s data to analyse a sample of 111 disc galaxies, like the ones shown here.
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JWST digs into structural origins of disk galaxies
The final SPIRE Dark Field image map created by combining the Blue (250 micrometres), Green (350 micrometres) and Red (500 micrometres) SPIRE camera channels together, each channel stacking a total of 141 individual images on top of each other.
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'Hidden galaxies' could be smoking gun in universe riddle
New research suggests at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were caused by a nearby supernova. Pictured is an example of one of these stellar explosions, Supernova 1987a (centre), within a neighbouring galaxy to our Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Violent supernovae 'triggered at least two Earth extinctions'
The "remarkable" XRT 200515 cosmic explosion observed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Mystery of 'remarkable' cosmic explosion that lay hidden for years
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