Extraordinary photo captures first appearance of Siberian peregrine falcon in Australia’s arid center
The Siberian peregrine falcon caught on video camera by ecologist Tim Henderson over Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary near Alice Springs in main Australia. (Image credit: © Tim Henderson) A wildlife scientist…
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Grim photo captures polar bear mom and cubs resting in mud in summer heat
In “Family Rest,” Christopher Paetkau recorded a polar bear mommy and her cubs taking a snooze in Canada’s summertime heat. ( Image credit: Christopher Paetkau/ Wildlife Photographer of the Year)…
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See the 100,000th photo of Mars taken by NASA’s groundbreaking Red Planet orbiter
[ 19659002]This shot of the dune-strewn area called Syrtis Major is the 100,000 th image recorded by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter utilizing its HiRISE cam. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)…
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‘Miracle’ photo captures Comet Lemmon and meteor seemingly entwined over Earth
(Image credit: Gianluca Masi/ Virtual Telescope Project) An astronomer just recently intended his telescope above Manciano, Italy, and captured something extraordinary: a brilliant comet apparently involved the corkscrewing path of…
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Space photo of the week: Violent galaxies seen ‘jousting’ near the dawn of time
This Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array image reveals the molecular gas material of 2 galaxies associated with a cosmic accident. (Image credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/ S. Balashev and P. Noterdaeme et al.) Quick…
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Space photo of the week: Record-breaking James Webb telescope image captures 1,678 galaxy groups at once
The Webb Telescope’s most current image functions galaxies that are billions of light-years remote. ( Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco, and the COSMOS-Web…
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Space photo of the week: Iconic ‘Eagle Nebula’ gets a major glow-up on Hubble’s 35th anniversary
A brand-new variation of Hubble’s view of the Eagle Nebula, initially released in 2005, utilizing the most recent image processing methods. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll) FAST FACTS…
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope reveals hidden past of the ‘Crystal Ball Nebula’
A planetary nebula NGC 1514 as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, Caltech, UCLA, Michael Ressler( NASA-JPL), Dave Jones(IAC)) What it is:…
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope’s view of the Flame Nebula is a ‘quantum leap’ forward for astronomers
This collage of images from the Flame Nebula reveals a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope left wing, with infrared views from the James Webb Space Telescope in the…
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Space photo of the week: Hubble hunts a stellar ‘imposter’ hiding in the Great Bear
The spiral nebula UGC 5460 has actually hosted 2 current supernovae. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Jacobson-Galán, A. Filippenko, J. Mauerha) What it is: The spiral nebula UGC 5460…
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