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Bacteria picture

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Bacteria could survive just under Mars's surface for 280 million years

When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, they can survive the intense radiation that hits the Red Planet for hundreds of millions of years

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The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

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The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

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A false-colour image of the supernova remnant HESS J1731-347 hosting an X-ray emitting neutron star

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Lightest neutron star ever found could contain compressed quarks

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The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster

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JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe

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View of asteroid Ryugu from Hayabusa 2. Credits: JAXA, University of Tokyo & collaborators

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Hayabusa 2 has brought back gases from an asteroid for the first time

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The Pillars of Creation as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

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JWST has taken a star-studded new image of the Pillars of Creation

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Composite image showing GRB221009A

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Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen

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Artist?s illustration of tidal disruption event where a supermassive black hole spaghettifies and gobbles down a star. Some of the material is not consumed by the black hole and is flung back out into space.

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A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later

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This artist???s impression shows an ultra-hot exoplanet, a planet beyond our Solar System, as it is about to transit in front of its host star. When the light from the star passes through the planet???s atmosphere, it is filtered by the chemical elements and molecules in the gaseous layer. With sensitive instruments, the signatures of those elements and molecules can be observed from Earth. Using the ESPRESSO instrument of ESO???s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have found the heaviest element yet in an exoplanet's atmosphere, barium, in the two ultra-hot Jupiters WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b.

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Two exoplanets have a strangely heavy element floating in their skies

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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the LSST Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100?C to reduce noise. Once complete and in place atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the camera will survey the southern night sky for a decade, creating a trove of data that scientists will pore over to better understand some of the universe's biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

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Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is taller than a car, has as many pixels as 266 iPhones and will, over the course of the next 10 years, help researchers study billions of galaxies

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Jet from neutron stars seems to travel seven times the speed of light

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right

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NASA’s DART mission moved an asteroid's orbit by smashing into it

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