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A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.

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A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...

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The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

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