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Meet Earendel, the most distant star ever detected The most distant star — or possibly pair of stars — that astronomers have ever seen was just revealed thanks to the Hubble telescope and a massive cluster of galaxies. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/30/23002980/earendel-hubble-most-distant-star-gravitational-lensing-jwst

The moon has a tail, and Earth wears it like a scarf once a month Like a comet soaring through the cosmos, the moon is followed by a slender tail of irradiated matter — and Earth passes directly through it once a month. Continue Reading . . . https://www.livescience.com/moon-has-a-sodium-tail.html

Modeling the bizarre remnants of a supernova When stars of a certain large size and energy run out of fuel, the result is a supernova explosion that can be spotted with the naked eye just once in a lifetime. Some leave behind a relatively spherical supernova remnant. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/mapping-the-jellyfish-nebula-supernova-remnant-133619763.html

Largest digital survey of the sky mapped billions of #stars https://t.co/WGBMYKGsGn via @engadget — Mike (@mikezmac) December 20, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js from Twitter https://twitter.com/mikezmac