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At first glance, a sky full of stars...

Look closer: most of these tiny points of light are actually galaxies!

This Rubin Observatory view captures around 10 million of them, each with a story to uncover.

(Video by WorldAndScience - Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)

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A Breathtaking Portrait of Saturn and Its Moon Mimas (Photographed November 30, 2007)

(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill)

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Always Getting Lost? The Streets You Grew Up On May Hold a Clue: https://t.co/4VD2A2nGCK

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Stunning: A glowing segment of the Rosette Nebula, part of an immense 100-light-year star-forming region found 5,200 light-years away.

(Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI)

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Have We Been Looking for Alien Megastructures in the Wrong Places? https://t.co/4oVh0FgAxH

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Out-of-this-world: Roughly 12 million light-years from us, Galaxy M81 harbors a black hole with a mass 70 million times that of the Sun—far exceeding the Milky Way’s central black hole by a factor of 17.

(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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Would you want perfect memory if it also meant never being able to forget your worst moments?

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How light pollution affects our view of stars and other objects in the night sky.

(Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, P. Marenfeld)

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Spectacular: A view of Yemen’s dry river valleys from the International Space Station.

(Credit: NASA Johnson)

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Fascinating: Infrared Light Peers Through the Lagoon Nebula’s Dust

(Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI)

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The Smallest Planet in Our Solar System Has a Surprisingly Big Secret:

https://t.co/9aT7A5ju2k

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If you could add one feature to the human body, what would it be?

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Spectacular: NGC 5335 shown in crisp, intricate detail.
Its fluffy, fragmented star-forming regions and lack of orderly spiral arms give the galaxy a gentle, almost cloudlike appearance.

(Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI)

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A Different Map of America: 5 Views Beyond State Borders: https://t.co/9P9zc8i6NL

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Do you think human memory is becoming fundamentally worse because we might eventually outsource everything to AI?

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Behold the Ghost Nebula (vdB 141), where cosmic dust takes ghostly shape.

(Credit: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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An incredible book with some fascinating insights!

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NGC 2775 is a hybrid: its centre resembles an elliptical galaxy, while its outer ring mirrors the dusty, star-packed structure of a spiral. From our single viewpoint, we class it as lenticular.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team)

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Tears May Hold a Surprising Clues About Your Brain Health: https://t.co/85vjhPQw9R

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Pause your scroll for a stellar gathering.

A view of Messier 21, a young open star cluster where small, dim stars crowd together near the Trifid Nebula.

(Video by WorldAndScience - Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA)