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English naturalist and explorer. He and Alfred Russel Wallace left England in 1848 to explore and collect insects in the…
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Astronomy and space
This is an artist's concept of the near stellar environment of the star Beta Pictoris. This illustration is based upon recent…
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Astronomy and space
Messier 64 (M 64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its…
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Astronomy and space
The Boomerang Nebula is a young planetary nebula and the coldest object found in the Universe so far. The NASA/ESA Hubble…
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Astronomy and space
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its…