#cosmic object

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These two stunning images show the same cosmic object, located 160,000 light-years away, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The blue image highlights near-infrared and visible light, while the red image covers near-ultraviolet to infrared light.

Astrophysicists believe the first generation of stars ejected matter, which, due to the cluster's high density, couldn't escape its gravity.

Credit: NASA

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(Space)  'Alien Megastructure' Star Is at It Again with the Strange Dimming

The perplexing cosmic object known as "Boyajian's star" is once again exhibiting a mysterious pattern of dimming and brightening that scientists have tried to explain with hypotheses ranging from swarms of comets to alien megastructures.

Today (May 19), an urgent call went out to scientists around the world to turn as many telescopes as possible toward the star, to try and crack the mystery of its behavior. (...)

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