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A Two-Toned Wonder from the Saturnian Outskirts

 Images credit: Saturn & the Phoebe Ring (middle) – NASA / JPL-Caltech / Keck; Iapetus (top left) – NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute / Cassini Imaging Team; Phoebe (bottom right) – NASA / ESA / JPL / Space Science Institute / Cassini Imaging Team. By Dr. Ethan Siegel Although Saturn has been known …

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Surprising Young Stars in the Oldest Places in the Universe:Space Place

Globular Cluster NGC 6397. Credit: ESA & Francesco Ferraro (Bologna Astronomical Observatory) / NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, WFPC2. By Dr. Ethan Siegel Littered among the stars in our night sky are the famed deep-sky objects. These range from extended spiral and elliptical galaxies millions or even billions of light years away to the star clusters, …

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