Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

A giant galaxy intrigues with its unique target-like structure ... With a diameter of 250,000 light-years, Bullseye is nearly two and a half times larger than the Milky Way. This colossal size makes ...

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John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

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RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

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Mark Ozboyd is obsessed with waterfalls. On a dark, new moon night in late August of 2023, the intrepid 23-year-old and a friend hiked and scrambled nearly two miles into a national forest in north ...