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European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, with additional data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...
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Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...
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Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in ...
Astronomers have discovered a new object that could help shed light on mysterious "little red dots" that were first spotted ...
Space is full of weird objects that don’t make sense according to what scientists thought they knew about the universe, […] ...
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Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...