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The red galaxy interacting with a spiral galaxy was magnified and distorted in an unusual way, which NASA said involved a "rare alignment between the galaxies, the lens, and the observer," known as a ...

The object is far outside our galactic neighborhood, possibly billions of light-years away. But astronomers have seen similar objects closer to home. This glowing red question mark was captured in the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...

A cosmic object in the shape of a glowing question mark has photobombed one of the latest images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope — and scientists think they know what it might be. The ...