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A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

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An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

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Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

By transferring this interaction effect to the potential of the stars in our galaxy, we obtain a strange result: a net zero potential of the galactic plane, which could help explain some phenomena ...