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Centaurus A's Warped Magnetic Fields
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NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision
Is this galaxy jumping through a giant ring of stars?
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Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole
What created this unusual explosion?
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Lightning over the Volcano of Water
Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe?
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NGC 4676: The Mighty Mice
These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Shells of Stars in Elliptical Galaxy PGC 42871
How do galaxies grow? To help find out, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed to image the unusual elliptical galaxy PGC 42871.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Cosmic Collision Forges Galactic Ring
How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring?
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Centaurus A
Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Clash of NGC 3256
Marked by an unusually bright central region, swirling dust lanes, and far flung tidal tails, peculiar NGC 3256 is the aftermath of a truly cosmic collision.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision
This galaxy is having a bad millennium. In fact, the past 100 million years haven't been so good, and probably the next billion or so will be quite tumultuous.
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