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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Telescope Captures Closest Cluster of Superstars to Earth (Image)

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It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s a super star cluster! NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that is “super” in every way. Westerlund 1 is super big, super massive, super young, super close – and it’s creating stars at a super fast rate. Westerlund 1 is about 13,000 light-years away from … Read more

The Webb Telescope captures the massive asteroid collision in the neighboring star system

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Astronomers observed a giant asteroid impact in Beta Pictoris, using data from the Webb and Spitzer telescopes. The event, which occurred 20 years ago, provides new insights into early planetary formation in this young star system. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: NASA The new observations shed light on the unstable processes that form star systems like our … Read more