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 | The most mysterious star in the Milky Way, V838 Monocerotis briefly became one of the brightest stars in our galaxy.The latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, has been unveiling never-before-seen dust patterns ever since the star suddenly brightened for several weeks in early 2002.
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 | This 4-million-year-old cluster.It has stars on the verge of blowing up as supernovae. It is the home of the brightest star seen in the Galaxy, called the Pistol star.
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 | The Carinae Nebula (also known as the Keyhole Nebula, the Great Nebula in Carina, the Carina Nebula, or NGC 3372) is a large bright nebula which surrounds the star Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and luminous stars in the galaxy. The nebula lies at an estimated distance between 6,500 and 10,000 light years from Earth. It is located in the constellation of Carina.
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 | The Boomerang Nebula (also called the Bowtie Nebula) is a nebula located 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the Centaurus constellation. Astronomers ve revealed that it is the coldest place in the Universe found so far with a temperature of -272C (1 kelvin).
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 | This ultraviolet image of Jupiter was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on 26 November 1998.The bright emissions above the dark blue background are auroral lights.The aurorae are curtains of light resulting from high energy electrons following the planet s magnetic field into the upper atmosphere, where collisions with atmospheric atoms and molecules produce the observed light.
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 | A massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218. This hefty cluster resides in the constellation Draco, some 2 billion light-years from Earth.
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