POKEBALL GALAXY? 🌌Nope, that's galaxy NGC 1015, a barred spiral galaxy located 118 million light-years away from Earth.

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This galaxy is one of 19 special galaxies analyzed by the Hubble Space Telescope to help astronomers measure the universe's rate of expansion with unprecedented precision — known as the Hubble constant.

-Hubble Space Telescope

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u/OkPraline3794 — 9 days ago

Mapping the History of Star Formation in Andromeda

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Astronomers divided this Hubble image of the Andromeda Galaxy into thousands of sections, each about 300 light-years across, to reconstruct where and when stars formed throughout the galaxy.

This image highlights two of those regions. Region 1 contains more young, massive blue stars, revealing recent bursts of star formation. Region 2 is dominated by older, redder stars, suggesting that little star formation has happened there recently.

In other words, the colors of the stars act like a timeline of Andromeda’s past.

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u/OkPraline3794 — 9 days ago

If Voyager 1 is nearly 50 years old and over 24 billion km away, how is it still able to receive our commands and send data back? Shouldn't its technology have worn out by now?

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u/OkPraline3794 — 13 days ago