Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: This Binary Star Will Outshine You Twice
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his dual-star system is the most luminous gamma-ray binary yet found, and the first found in another galaxy.
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25 million light-years from Earth, the Sculptor constellation contains this spiral galaxy, including the bright blue bursts of young stars, red spots of hydrogen gas, and dark strands of cosmic dust shown.
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The Ouarkziz crater in western Algeria was created when a meteor hit Earth 70 million years ago.
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Pandora’s Cluster is a galaxy studied through the Frontier Fields observations, which searches for the earliest—and often, the dimmest—galaxies in the universe.
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On September 30, Rosetta descended to the surface of Comet 67P/C-G, taking these images along the way.
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Mawrth Vallis, one of the biggest valleys on Mars, was formed by flowing water, suggesting it was once habitable.
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This photo of Saturn was taken from a degree above the icy rings, looking toward their sunlit side. On the bottom, the rings cast curving shadows across Saturn.
