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Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have helped researchers examine compact structures of star clusters inside galaxies for the first time. In a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society last month, the Stockholm University scientists studied the first phase…

A dead, partially frozen shark washed ashore a Cape Cod beach this past weekend amid record-breaking cold temperatures in the Northeast. “Def not what I was expecting to find on my frozen winter adventure,” local photographer Amie Medeiros shared in an Instagram post. On Saturday, Medeiros captured…

The James Webb Space Telescope accidentally found an asteroid, and NASA says it’s likely the smallest observed to date by the observatory. International astronomers detected an asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum, between 300 and 650 feet in length. The space rock was found when analyzing…

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