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Native Hawaiian high school interns named a Gemini North image of two merging spiral galaxies 200+ million light-years away "The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life."
Read the story →NSF NOIRLab's Dark Energy Camera has captured a 570-megapixel mosaic of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, the closest active star-forming region to the Sun, with dust lanes so swirling that astronomers reached for Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' to describe it.
A 2021 IceCube high-energy neutrino has been traced to JCMT0402-0424, a gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy 11 billion light-years away — the strongest evidence yet that distant dusty star-forming galaxies forge the universe's most elusive particles.
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