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Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star
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Da Vinci Rise
An old Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent shining just above the eastern horizon before sunrise.
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Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole
What created this unusual explosion?
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Spitzer's Orion
Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula!
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Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945
Large spiral galaxy NGC 4945 is seen edge-on near the center of this cosmic galaxy portrait.
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Animation: Spiral Disk around a Black Hole
What would it look like to orbit a black hole?
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Jupiter Engulfed and the Milky Way
This is a good month to see Jupiter.
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The North America Nebula in Infrared
The North America Nebula can do what most North Americans cannot -- form stars.
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Shadowed Moon and Mountain
On July 16 the Moon celebrated the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 with a lunar eclipse.
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Magellanic Galaxy NGC 55
Irregular galaxy NGC 55 is thought to be similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
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