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Supernova blast sculpts ghostly hand-shaped nebula in the cosmos (video)

A glowing hand stretches across the cosmos, with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar ...
The New York Times

Supernova or Coronavirus: Can You Tell the Difference?

A scientist finds beauty in the “visual synonyms” that exist in images seen through microscopes and telescopes. By Katrina Miller For Kim Arcand, a visualization scientist for NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...
New York Post

Astronomers discover largest superstructure in cosmos — and it could change the way we think of outer space forever

A team of international astronomers has identified what is believed to be the largest known superstructure in the cosmos, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of outer space. According to ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

COSMOS-Web opens window into universe for scientists and citizens

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...
news.ucsb.edu

Mapping space: Largest map of the universe announced

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...
CNN

A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus is due to crash back to Earth this week

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Though most ...