Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED) - Part 1

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'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a weird black hole

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time."

www.space.com

 

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North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust
Image Credit & Copyright: Davide Coverta

 

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Young Stars, Dark Nebulae
Image Credit & Copyright: Long Xin

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-charlottetown-meteorite-strike-first-audio-1.7430018

 

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Wolf Moon Engulfs Mars
Image Credit & Copyright: Imran Sultan

 

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M83: The Southern Pinwheel
Image Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA;
Processing: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage/NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NOIRLab)

 

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North polar region of Jupiter's moon Io photographed by NASA's Juno spacecraft February 3, 2024

Io is the innermost and second smallest of Jupiter's four largest moons
(Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto - also known as the Galilean moons)

Image Credit: NASA (JPL)

 

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https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5265965/mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-alignment-planet-parade

 

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Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (University of Gent)

 

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Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273
Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Doctor

 

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The Dark Doodad Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh & Rocco Sung

 

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Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava

 

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