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Have you ever seen a “megacluster” of galaxies? You have now. Above is a flagship new “ultra deep” image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of Abell 2744—nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster—a megacluster of three separate clusters of galaxies and a stunning 50,000 objects.

There’s so much mass in this megacluster that its gravity warps the fabric of spacetime to create a natural super-magnifying glass called a “gravitational lens.” It’s that which has allowed JWST to see much farther into the cosmos than it’s natively capable of.

The latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope features all-new details of a violent megacluster of galaxies about four billion light years from Earth.

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Hubble easily resolves the Sombrero galaxy’s rich system of globular clusters, estimated to be nearly 2,000 in number — 10 times more than the number of globular clusters in our Milky Way.

A spectacular new photo has been released showing the record-holder for largest galaxy in the universe.

NGC 6872, also known as the Condor Galaxy, stretches 522,000 light years from tip to tip. The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light years across.

The galaxy is visible in the southern skies as part of the Pavo constellation, and is 212 million light-years from Earth.

NASA’s CAPSTONE moon mission had a communications glitch that took 11 days to resolve, but all is back to normal after controllers rebooted the spacecraft.

The agency stitches together 368 images to document the Perseverance rover’s epic Mars sample depot.

For the seventh time, a small asteroid – a meteoroid as astronomers call it – was discovered in space as it raced towards Earth for impact. The predicted time and location of the impact (02:50 – 03:03 UTC

Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. Prior to 1972, this time was called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is also known as “Z time” or “Zulu Time.” It is, within about 1 second, mean solar time at 0° longitude.

The PneumoPlanet inflatable lunar habitat offers an opportunity for future lunar astronauts to comfortably live, eat and work on the moon, its designers say.

Railguns, Coilguns, Gauss Cannons, MAC Guns, what does it all mean? This week we’re exploring the topic of Electromagnetic weapons. From Halo to just Science Fiction in general, they’re a staple due to their cool designs but also because of how close we are to building them today. We’ll look at a few of the weapons we see in Halo as well as some real world experiments and designs showing just how close we are to having MAC Guns in space ourselves!

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Sometimes humans are better at astronomy than computers.

Not that it’s a competition, but we’re definitely winning.