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the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa finds radio galaxies that dwarf our Milky Way. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za//2021-01-18-south-africas/

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We've only just seen a black hole. When do you think we'll finally see a wormhole?

Lanzamiento con éxito de DRAGO, la primera cámara infrarroja de IACTEC Esta tarde, la cámara infrarroja DRAGO, desarrollada por el equipo de IACTEC-Espacio d...el IAC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias e integrada dentro del satélite ION de la empresa italiana D-Orbit (misión PULSE), ha sido lanzada con éxito al espacio a bordo de un cohete Falcon 9 de Space X. La llamada misión Transporter-1 pudo despegar sin contratiempos a primera hora de la ventana lanzamiento, que comenzaba a las 15:00 horas UTC, desde la plataforma 40 de la Estación de la Fuerza Espacial de Cabo Cañaveral en Florida (EEUU). Más información e imágenes: https://www.iac.es//lanzamiento-con-exito-de-drago-la-prim

APOD: Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 (2021 Jan 24) Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, Subaru; Composition & Copyright: Roberto Colombari https://apod.nasa....gov/apod/ap210124.html Explanation: It is one of the more massive galaxies known. A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. This sharp view of the gorgeous island universe shows off a striking yellow nucleus and galactic disk. Dust lanes, small, pink star-forming regions, and young blue star clusters are embedded in the patchy, tightly wound spiral arms. In contrast, many other spirals exhibit grand, sweeping arms with large star-forming regions. NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way. The featured composite image merges exposures from the orbiting 2.4-meter Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope. X-ray images suggest that resulting winds and stellar explosions create plumes of hot gas extending into a halo around NGC 2841. https://www.nasa.gov/ https://esahubble.org/ https://hla.stsci.edu/ https://subarutelescope.org/ https://www.facebook.com/roberto.colombari Starship Asterisk* APOD Discussion Page http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210124 #APOD

Visual poetry, featuring bright, blue, newly formed stars blowing a cavity in this nebula. Photo: NASA