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The Boomerang Nebula is a cloud of dust and gas that's the coldest natural place in the universe. It's located in the constellation Centaurus, about 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Credit: ALMA/NASA/ESA/Hubble/NRAO/AUI/NSF

January 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!

January 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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Astronomy pictures

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The Pillars of Creation captured by the James Webb Space Telescope

November 16, 2024 at 6:09 AM

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galaxies 🌌

A close-up shot of a spiral galaxy. A bright core is seen edge-on, with spiral arms surrounding it. These arms are full of dark brown dust and hazy blue star formation.

$Slightly oblique view of a spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow central core and two spiral arms that wind clockwise from the center. The arms consist of dark reddish-brown dust trails that are vein-like and hazy clouds of blue stars. The outer regions of the galaxy appear bluer, with bright clusters of blue stars sparsely lining the outer edges of the spiral arms. There are a few foreground stars that have bright white or blue cores with colorful fuzzy halos and four diffraction spikes radiating from their centers. Scattered across the dark background are thousands of faint objects that vary in size, shape, and color. Most appear as small dots, ovals, or lines in different shades of orange, red, and blue.$ A massive spiral galaxy fills the image. A bright, yellow galactic core glows at the center, surrounded by spiral arms studded with pink stars and dark lanes of dust.