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Building bricks on the moon from lunar dust In the coming decades, many space agencies hope to conduct crewed missions to the Moon and even establish outposts there. In fact, between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), Roscosmos, and the Ind...

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Fascinating: SNR 0454-67.2, a supernova remnant in the LMC. Likely born from a Type Ia explosion, it features red filaments amid dark clouds. Such supernovae shine with consistent brightness, making them vital “standard candles” for gauging cosmic distances.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA)

Intriguing: The spiral galaxy UGC 5460 recently hosted two apparent “supernovae”—but it turns out one was actually a luminous blue variable, a rare star type that erupts dramatically yet survives the explosion.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Jacobson-Galán, A. Filippenko, J. Mauerhan)

Iconic!

Few of the Universe’s residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. This image captures a perfect example: NGC 2903, located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho et al.)

Lithium vs Alkaline Batteries: What is The Difference? Among the most frequently encountered types of batteries in everyday life are lithium and alkaline varieties. But what exactly sets these two apart?

Alkaline vs lithium: what is the difference and which battery should you really buy?

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Rings Upon Rings!

Fascinating: NGC 2273 seems like a simple barred spiral galaxy, with two graceful arms winding from a central bar. Yet within these arms lie hidden rings—intricate spirals within a spiral...

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Greene)

A view of the night sky that those of us that live on the northern hemisphere are missing

The Southern Cross.

Could we actually reach a black hole with a paperclip-sized spacecraft? It may sound like the plot of a sci-fi film reaching a black hole with a spacecraft, but it turns out that the idea may not be that outlandish.

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'A sea monster and a Tarantula'

Behold this gorgeous part of the Tarantula Nebula, a large star-forming region in the LMC galaxy, 160,000 light-years away.

The Nebula contains some of the most massive stars in the Universe!

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray)

The spectacular remains of a stellar explosion: Supernova remnant SNR 0519, left behind by a white dwarf’s cataclysmic demise.

(Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/B. J. Williams et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI)

An amazing zoom-in on the supermassive black hole anchoring M87, a giant elliptical galaxy 55 million light-years away!

(Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

Stunning: The Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) lies about 3800 light-years away in Scorpius.

Its glowing gas (formerly the star's outer layers) was expelled over 2200 years, forming a butterfly-shaped structure over two light-years wide!

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)

A breathtaking face-on view of the remarkable galaxy NGC 5335, classified as a flocculent spiral galaxy, featuring scattered, patchy streams of star formation spread across its disk.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Why do astronomers believe in dark matter? Dark matter, by its very nature, is unseen. We cannot observe it with telescopes, and nor have particle physicists had any luck detecting it via experiments.

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VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula

(Credit: ESO, J. Emerson, VISTA - Acknowledgment- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

Pluto will not complete its first orbit around the Sun since its discovery until March 23, 2178!

This image shows a vibrant slice of the Virgo Cluster from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, featuring two bright spiral galaxies, three merging galaxies, distant galaxy groups, Milky Way stars, and more—highlighting the cosmos’s remarkable diversity.

(Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)

Breathtaking: IC 2051, a barred spiral galaxy 85 million light-years away in Mensa. Its flat disk features a bright central bulge of stars, a structure that shapes galaxy evolution and drives the growth of supermassive black holes.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Erwin et al.)

You’re eating microplastics in ways you don’t even realize We’re increasingly aware of how plastic is polluting our environment. Much recent attention has focused on how microplastics – tiny pieces ranging from 5 millimetres down to 100 nanometres in diameter...

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What is your real ‘biological age’, and what does this mean for your health Age-based risk calculators that work out your “real biological age” are increasingly popular. We hear about body age on health shows like How to Stay Young; gyms promote reductions in metabolic age an...

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The hidden magnetic chaos within the Whirlpool Galaxy!

(Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))

Interstellar travel without a spaceship is possible - Here's how: Research published in the International Journal of Astrobiology proposes a fascinating theory where advanced extraterrestrial civilizations can travel among the stars without the need for an interstel...

Journeying to Other Stars Without a Spaceship

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The giant Megalodon shark may have been even larger than we thought A team of scientists has managed to determine the size of the giant Megalodon shark more accurately than ever before. It turns out that it was even larger than previously thought.

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Why you don't actually need 8 hours of sleep per night It is often said that 8 hours of sleep is essential. But is this really true?

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Gorgeous: The spiral galaxy NGC 1566, known as the ‘Spanish Dancer Galaxy'

It is part of the Dorado galaxy group and is located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti and the LEGUS team, R. Chandar)

How Much Daily Walking Do You Need to Live Longer? Research suggests that, if all Americans over 40 matched the physical activity levels of the top 25%, they could live 5 years longer on average, while the least active 25% could gain nearly 11 ye...

How much daily walking do you need if you want to live longer?

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Why Doesn't Earth Have Rings? Before we really get started on today’s episode, I’d like to share a bunch of really cool pictures created by my friend Kevin Gill. Kevin’s a computer programmer, 3-D animator and works on climate sci...

Why Doesn't Earth Have Rings?

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NGC 5395 (left) is a spectacular spiral galaxy about 160 million light-years away in Canes Venatici. Its distorted shape and off-centre ring are the result of a dramatic interaction with its smaller neighbour, NGC 5394

(Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

Oceans, beaches, cosmic shorelines: our changing understanding of habitable planets and habitable zones The more we learn, the more our understanding of the "habitable zone" becomes more nuanced.

From Oceans to Cosmic Shores: How Our View of Habitable Worlds and Zones Is Evolving: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...

Lay your eyes on the unique core of this 30 million light-years distant galaxy's called NGC 1512.

The core is remarkable for its stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters, called a "circumnuclear" starburst ring.

(Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Maoz)