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[ad_1] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an image showing red glowing gas and dust being cast out from the center of a starburst galaxy known as the Cigar Galaxy. The Cigar Galaxy, also known as Messier 82 (M82), has a compact but turbulent environment at its core, which can provide scientists a clearer picture of how stars are born en…

[ad_1] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US space agency shared an exquisite video capturing a mind-boggling collection of dazzling stars that are located 30,000 light-years away. In a social media post on its Instagram handle, the space agency stated, “Liller 1 is a globular cluster – a roughly spherical grouping of stars held together by gravity. However, while most of these types of clusters are home…

[ad_1] Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos. | Photo Credit: Reuters When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object’s trajectory, if needed, to protect Earth. It turns out that this collision changed not only the asteroid’s path but its shape as well. The asteroid, which before…