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Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which are labelled in the JWST spectrum at the bottom. Although scientists regularly find these elements on Earth, astronomers rarely, if ever, observe many of them in distant galaxies. Credit: Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern, CIERA + IT-RCDS

Galaxies, Science

JWST uncovers a surprising amount of nickel in adolescent galaxies

An image of the area surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, in X-ray and infrared light. X-ray: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al.; IR: NASA/STScI

Exotic Objects, Science

4 of the weirdest objects in space

During the Artemis test mission in 2022, Orion passes close to the Moon’s surface, with Earth a small crescent in the background. Credit: NASA

How the Moon formed

Blue-green Uranus may not look like much through a telescope, but you can see its small disk at magnifications of 100x and more. Even this close-up look from the Voyager 2 spacecraft fails to reveal much detail. Credit: NASA/JPL.

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Solar System, Space Exploration

The many mysteries NASA can solve on a mission to Uranus

Picture of the Day

Toil and trouble

Soumyadeep Mukherjee from Kolkata, India

The Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118) is a reflection nebula in Eridanus about 900 light-years distant. In this image, the witch’s face is staring down at the bright star Rigel (Beta [β] Orionis), just outside of the frame. The image was taken over 11 hours and 40 minutes in LRGB filters with a 4.2-inch scope.

In the Sky

A Full Beaver Moon Rising

The Sky This Week from November 24 to December 1: Celebrate November’s Full Beaver Moon

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