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The official Universal-Sci Twitter account - Providing you with a selection of the most interesting science-related news and background stories

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Gazing into the core of our Milky Way, millions of stars captivate the view! (Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA et al./W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), and M. Rich (UCLA), Travis Rector, Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin) Video by Universal-Sci

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Fascinating: NASA's Galileo spacecraft actually captured an active volcano on Io, one of Jupiter's moons!

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Absolutely stunning view of the Pillars of Creation The light from young stars being formed pierce the clouds of dust and gas in the infrared Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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How many Humans have ever lived? (Credit: Max Roser)

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Breathtaking: The final acts of a monster star What you see here is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way called AG Carinae as it is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. (Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt)

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Magnificent! NGC 3576: Located about 9,000 light years from Earth. Star formation and death are responsible for the intriguing & complex shapes seen within. This image is over 70 light years across! Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/L.Townsley et al, Optical: ESO/2.2m telescope

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Awesome: Titan's seas reflecting sunlight (Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho)

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Astonishing: Scientists have been baffled by how spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are shaped. The SOFIA telescope’s infrared observations reveal what human eyes cannot magnetic fields that follow the spiral arms (Credit: NASA/SOFIA; NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.)

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''Two possibilities exist either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying'' - Arthur C. Clarke

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Fascinating: Stars orbiting the black hole in the center of our galaxy (Credit: Keck/UCLA Galactic Center Group)

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Stunning: The Eagle Nebula This soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers high! Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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This spectacular image presents a detailed close-up view of the extraordinary spiral galaxy NGC 4603, situated more than 100 million light-years distant in the Centaurus constellation. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Maund)

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Earth and Saturn in perspective...

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A new star is born in our galaxy roughly every 18 days... Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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Interesting fact: Titan is the only world in the solar system besides Earth with lakes & oceans on its surface

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This Webb telescope image of Cassiopeia A in near-infrared light unveils a detailed supernova remnant and a fascinating light echo, Baby Cas A, showcasing the telescope's extraordinary cosmic insights. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, D. Milisavljevic, T. Temim, I. De Looze)

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Earth and Saturn in perspective..

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Gorgeous: A black hole at the heart of this dwarf galaxy (Henize 2-10) is apparently contributing to the firestorm of new star formation taking place in the galaxy. (Credit: NASA, ESA, Zachary Schutte (XGI), Amy Reines (XGI) / Alyssa Pagan (STScI))

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Earth's seasons

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Incredible: A snowflake magnified 50,000 times. It almost looks like an alien virus... (Credit: Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU)

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Stunning: IC 1396A, known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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A breathtaking gif showing an eruption of one of Io's giant volcanoes. We live in a fascinating world.. (Credit: NASA)

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Explore how the extreme gravity of two orbiting supermassive black holes distorts our view! The larger one is 200 million times the mass of our Sun, while its blue companion weighs half as much (Credit: NASA Goddard / Jeremy Schnittman / Brian P. Powell)

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This is what ancient Mars would have looked like when it still had oceans based on geological data. (Credit: Ittiz)

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A hole in the ISS made by a meteorite the size of a grain of sand... (Credit: NASA)

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How big is Antarctica-- Here's a comparison with the United States (Credit: NASA/LIMA)

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This supernova remnant image is beautiful, but it also represents a cosmic detective story. Through careful study, astronomers deduced it came from a white dwarf collision Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SAO, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and J. Hughes (Rutgers University)

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Mesmerizing: 119 million light-years from Earth we find spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged here in fantastic detail using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al./ M. Zamani)

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Interesting: The anatomy of a Black Hole (Credit: ESO)

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Breathtaking: The pillars of creation in infrared... Keep in mind that this structure is several trillions of miles long! (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/Joseph DePasquale, Alyssa Pagan, Anton M. Koekemoer - Video by Universal-Sci)

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'Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.' -- Carl Sagan

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Incredible: A Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS Credit: NASA, ISS, Riccardo Rossi (ISAA)

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119 million light-years from Earth we encounter the breathtaking spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged here in fantastic detail using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al./ M. Zamani)

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Pause for a moment to marvel at the stunning IC 2631, the Reflection Nebula! 🌌🌌 (Credit: ESO)

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The gorgeous Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237 (Credit: )

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Breathtaking image of the april 2024 solar eclipse from the International Space Station, snapped 261 miles above Earth (Credit: NASA Johnson)

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Interesting fact: The wind on Neptune is so fast it breaks the sound barrier!

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Earth, viewed from the surface of Mars (Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M)

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Light Speed – fast, but slow (Credit: Dr. James O'Donoghue/ @physicsJ )

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An amazing zoom-in on NGC 4485! (Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

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Astonishing: The Kliuchevskoi Volcano photographed from 115 nautical miles above Earth (Credit: NASA Johnson)

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Stunning: Pelican Nebula This image reveals many previously unseen shockwaves, evidence for powerful outflows from newly formed stars embedded within the molecular clouds that rim the nebula. (Credit: University of Colorado, University of Hawaii and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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A Hubble View of Starburst Galaxy Messier 94 (Credit: ESA, NASA)

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This gorgeous image of the globular cluster Caldwell 107 combines observations taken in visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and its Advanced Camera for Surveys. (Credits: NASA, ESA, G. Piotto, and A. Sarajedini, Processing: Gladys Kober)

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Hubble celebrated its 32nd Birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called the Hickson Compact Group 40. This snapshot reflects a special moment in their lifetimes as they fall together before they merge (Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI)

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Interesting fact: Astronomers estimate that 100 million black holes roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy...

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Do you think you're sitting still right now? - You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s - That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s - That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s. Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km..

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Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole seen in infrared (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM)

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3C 397 is a fascinating supernova remnant that spans about 50 light-years in width. Its boxy shape was likely formed when heated remains of the exploded star crashed into the cooler gas in its surroundings (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXC/Univ of Manitoba/S.Safi-Harb et al.)

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The very first picture of the Earth and our moon in a single frame (Credit: NASA/JPL)

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Magnificent! NGC 3576: Located about 9,000 light years from Earth. Star formation and death are responsible for the intriguing & complex shapes seen within. This image is over 70 light years across! Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/L.Townsley et al, Optical: ESO/2.2m telescope

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A Breathtaking Sunrise Over the Pacific An orbital sunrise reveals cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above (Credit: NASA)

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The Elephant Trunk Nebula: a dense, elongated cloud of gas inside a bright cluster of stars also known as IC 1396. The trunk conceals many young protostars that are in the process of forming. (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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Spectacular: A Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station (Credit: NASA, ISS, Riccardo Rossi (ISAA))

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Intriguing: Remnant G70.5+1.9, likely a relic of a supernova, nestled near the vast HII emission nebula Sh2-100. Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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Remarkable footage captures 4 exoplanets, each the size of Jupiter, revolving billions of miles from their host star in a neighboring solar system (They take anywhere from decades to centuries to complete an orbit) Credit: Jason Wang (Caltech), Christian Marois (NRC Herzberg)

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JWST's NIRCam has zoomed into the very heart of the Ring Nebula, revealing a mesmerizing dance of gases and molecular structures. (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow/University College London, N. Cox (ACRI-ST), R. Wesson/Cardiff University)

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The Pillars of Creation, captured JWST present as towering spires reminiscent of desert terrains, yet they are woven with a delicate tapestry of translucent gas and dust Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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Interesting fact: Lions spend up to 20 hours per day sleeping. (Female lions tend to sleep a bit less than male lions, though)

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Enceladus to Scale (Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

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Breathtaking photo: A conjunction of Mercury and Venus appears above the Moon, as viewed from the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. (Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky)

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A gorgeous jet in the Carina Nebula in visible light (captured with Hubble's WFC3 detector) (Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team)

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Amazing image showing the location of thousands of black holes located near the center of our own Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. (Credit: NASA/CXC/Columbia Univ./C. Hailey et al.)

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Breathtaking: The pillars of creation in infrared... Keep in mind that this structure is several trillions of miles long! (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/Joseph DePasquale, Alyssa Pagan, Anton M. Koekemoer - Video by Universal-Sci)

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The dark side of Saturn (Credit: NASA)

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Spiral arm of galaxy NGC 772, created by tidal interactions with an unruly neighbor Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA - Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin

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Awesome: Brussels and Antwerp at night as seen from Space (Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center)

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Fascinating: A conceptual animation showing the heliosphere — the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun's magnetic field and envelops all the planets. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)

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Gorgeous Rosette emission-line image The Rosette is a prominent star formation region, glowing due to ultraviolet light from the young, hot, blue stars whose winds also cleared the central hole. (Credit: T. A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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Marvel at the stunning grandeur of Pismis 24-1, a mammoth star system ensconced in the beautiful nebula NGC 6357. (Credit: NASA, ESA, Jesœs Maz Apellÿniz, Davide De Martin)

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An incredible view of one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA)

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A Sea of Sequins... This star-studded image shows the globular cluster Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius, toward the center of our Milky Way. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen)

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Amazing: These are Hubble images of 4 protoplanetary disks around young stars in the Orion Nebula, about 1,300 light-years away. The disks range in size from 2x to 8x the diameter of our solar system! (Credit: Mark McCaughrean, C. Robert O'Dell, NASA)

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Interesting fact: Capybaras (the largest living rodents) can run up to 21 miles per hour!

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A stunning lunar halo (known as a 22° halo) in the sky above La Silla Observatory It is a result of moonlight interacting with millions of ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere, forming a ring with a radius of about 22° around the moon. Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky (LCO)

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European wild mammals are recovering, thanks to conservation efforts. (Credit: Hannah Ritchie/Our World in Data)

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Amazing picture of Chicago at night taken by crew aboard the International Space Station. (Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center)

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Incredible: The 30 Dorandus complex. A star-forming region that has been active for 25 million years! (Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI)

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Interesting fact: It takes light over 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way galaxy to the other... (Our galaxy is just one of the hundreds of billions of galaxies within the observable universe)

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Beautiful: Cloudy formation in the south Indian Ocean (Credit: NASA Johnson)

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Gorgeous: Tumultuous Clouds of Jupiter... (Credit: NASAJPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS, Kevin M. Gill)

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Incredible: A large prominence erupting from the surface of the sun (Credit: NASA-SDO)

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A stunning view of globular cluster Terzan 4 (Globular clusters are collections of stars bound together by their mutual gravitational attraction, and can contain millions of individual stars) (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen)

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Hubble celebrated its 32nd Birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called the Hickson Compact Group 40. This snapshot shows a special moment in their lifetimes as they fall together before they merge (Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI)

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Incredible: One of the earliest galaxies ever observed: GN-z11, seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past Its light arrives in our corner of the universe, stretched by its trip across the expanding universe into infrared wavelengths Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)

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Gorgeous: ALMA at night (Credit: Sangku Kim/ESO)

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Very cool: M100, The Spiral Galaxy, before and after the 1993 repair mission to correct Hubble's optics (Credit: NASA)

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Sunspot as seen by the Vacuum Tower Telescope (Credit: T.Rimmele (NSO), M.Hanna (NOAO)/AURA/NSF

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The astronomical explanation for Mercury retrograde (Credit Dr James O'Donoghue/ @physicsJ )

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Human eyes have limitations. For example, blue tones look dark to us as our eyes are less sensitive to blue light. Here's what earth would look like from 'alien eyes' with equal sensitivity to all colors (Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring/PHL @ UPR Arecibo)

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Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt stands adjacent to a massive, fractured rock during his third moonwalk on the Apollo 17 mission. (Credit: NASA/Eugene Cernan)

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A solar eruptive prominence as seen in extreme UV light on March 30, 2010 with Earth superimposed for a sense of scale. (Credit: NASA/SDO)

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Some perspectives: Size comparison between Jupiter and Saturn's moons and Earth

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A captivating close-up of Saturn's North Pole in near infrared! (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill)

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Breathtaking view of the aptly named Flame Nebula. It really does look like it's on fire.. (Credit: NASA)

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Astounding: Inside star cluster NGC 602, a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, bright, blue, newly formed stars are blowing a cavity, sculpting the inner edge of its outer portions, slowly eroding it away and eating into the material beyond (Credit: NASA)

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Completely invisible, yet unbelievably influential. 💫 Scientists have been baffled by how spiral galaxies are shaped. IR observations from reveal what human eyes cannot: magnetic fields that closely follow the spiral arms. (Credit: NASA/SOFIA; NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.)

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How different map projections distort a sphere onto a flat surface. (Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Greg Shirah)

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Wavelength Sensitivity of Hubble, Webb, Roman, and Others Planets, stars, galaxies, and other objects in space give off a wide range of visible and invisible forms of light. No single observatory can detect all wavelengths. (Credit: NASA, STScI)

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A breathing Earth! This rotating globe shows the Earth's biosphere over a 19 year period. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio)

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