#UMPlus - NGC 4725 by Robert Gendler

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This excellent image by astronomer Robert Gendler shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4725, located in the direction of the Coma Berenices constellation and about 40 million light-years from the Milky Way. It is an intermediate Seyfert galaxy, indicating the presence of an active galactic nucleus.....
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#UMPlus - Inside the Tarantula

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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a nebulous and stellar landscape near the infrared emission of Dor IRS 18, within the popular Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070. This region features a bright cloudscape of one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, the dwarf galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud, located.....
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#UMPlus - Auroras on Jupiter

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The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze toward the giant planet in the Solar System. Webb has captured new details of Jupiter's auroras. The observed auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. These observations of Jupiter's auroras were captured with the.....
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#UMPlus - Soul Nebula by JP Metsävainio

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This excellent image by astronomer JP Metsävainio shows a close-up of the popular Soul Nebula IC 1848. Neighboring the equally popular Heart Nebula IC 1805, the Soul Nebula is a star-forming region where hundreds of newborn or emerging stars have been cataloged, classified as young stellar objects, or.....
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#UMPlus - Lunar Halo over La Silla

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This spectacular 22° lunar halo formed in the skies above the La Silla Observatory in Chile. This optical phenomenon is the result of moonlight interacting with millions of ice crystals suspended in Earth's atmosphere, forming a ring with an apparent radius of approximately 22° around the satellite. It is also.....
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#UMPlus - RCW 42 by Ezequiel Bellocchio

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RCW 42, also known as Gum 26 and Bran 263, among other designations, is a star-forming region located in the direction of the Vela constellation and at a distance of about 21,000 light-years from the Solar System. This wide-field image by astronomer Ezequiel Bellocchio shows clouds of gas and dust in the.....
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#UMPlus - Gum 80 by the VST

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Sh2-46, also cataloged as RCW 158 and GUM 80, is an emission nebula located southeast of the Serpens constellation and approximately 1.5° west of the popular Eagle Nebula in Messier 16. Sh2-46 measures about 25 arcminutes across and is silhouetted against a region of the Milky Way heavily obscured by.....
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#UMPlus - NGC 6856 by William Maxwell

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This image by astronomer William Maxwell shows the open star cluster NGC 6856, located at a distance of about 5,560 light-years from the Solar System and located in the direction of the Cygnus constellation. Some sources consider it to be a loose group of stars, but most agree that it is a star cluster. It.....
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#UMPlus - Galaxy NGC 3596

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This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in six different wavelengths of light, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3596. It lies 90 million light-years from the Milky Way and is located in the direction of the constellation Leo. NGC 3596 appears almost face-on from our perspective, displaying tightly coiled.....
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#UMPlus - Abell 1489

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The deep darkness of this image is punctuated by hundreds of patches of light, each representing an entire galaxy in our Universe. Many of the yellowish dots are members of the Abell 1489 galaxy cluster, imaged here with the GMOS Multi-Object Spectrograph installed at the Gemini North Observatory, one of.....
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#UMPlus - NGC 4852 by Sergio Eguivar

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This image by astronomer Sergio Eguivar shows the open star cluster NGC 4852, also cataloged as Collinder 266 and Melotte 116, among other designations. It is a group of stars held together by the force of gravity, located in the direction of the Centaurus constellation, approximately 1.5° east of the.....
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#UMPlus - Europa Clipper Mission

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Larger than a basketball court, Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa. There is scientific evidence that the ingredients for life may exist on Europa right now. The spacecraft will travel 2.9 billion kilometers to reach Jupiter in April 2030. It.....
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#UMPlus - Rogue Planet DANCe J16081299-2304316

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These images show a rogue planet previously mistaken for a brown dwarf star, dubbed DANCe J16081299-2304316. Still unnamed, this planet is not bound to any star, so it roams freely through the cosmos in search of a chance encounter. The planet is visible as a red dot in the center of the image above. Data from.....
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#UMPlus - M81 and M82 in the Shadows

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This starless image by astronomer James Negri shows the galaxies Messier 81 and Messier 82, two galaxies frequently visited by amateur telescopes. The polar jets of energy clearly visible in optical light from Messier 82, in addition to Messier 81's impressive galactic disk and halo, make them a.....
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#UMPlus - NGC 1888 by Bernard Miller

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This image by astronomer Bernard Miller shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1888, which is located in the direction of the Lepus constellation and lies at a distance of about 105 million light-years from the Milky Way. This galaxy features an extended halo of neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is.....
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#UMPlus - Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas)

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This image was taken on January 21, 2025, from the Chilean peaks by photographer Florentín Millour. The Very Large Telescope, seen on the left of the image, sits in the foreground on the summit of Cerro Paranal. Stars shine in the sky like a tapestry of diamonds. A little closer, within the.....
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#UMPlus - Herbig-Haro 139

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This image taken from the 4-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile shows a close-up of the Herbig-Haro object HH ​​139, located in the western molecular cloud of the Circinus constellation. Herbig-Haro objects are small, red, spot-like nebulae often found near.....
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#UMPlus - Sh2-99/100 by Daniel Nimmervoll

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This image by astronomer Daniel Nimmervoll shows a nebulous landscape located in the direction of the Cygnus constellation, where many interesting objects appear. Among them are the emission nebulae Sh2-99 and its close companion Sh2-100. These nebulae are located in the south-central part of the.....
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#UMPlus - NGC 6106 by Jerry Yesavage

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This image by astronomer Jerome Yesavage shows the spiral galaxy NGC 6106, visible in the direction of the constellation of Hercules, located at a distance of about 67 million light-years from the Milky Way. NGC 6106 is notable for having hosted two recent supernovae, in 2020 and 2024, called AT 2020kog and.....
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#UMPlus - Soyuz Spacecraft

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Soyuz, meaning "union" in Russian, is the name of both a spacecraft and the rocket that puts it into orbit, also used for other missions. The Soyuz spacecraft is a vehicle that can be crewed by up to three astronauts and was part of the Soyuz program of the former Soviet Union. The rocket that.....
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