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Jun 10

A Cosmic Zoo in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Source: ESO

Astronomers often turn their telescopes to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way, in their quest to understand the Universe. In this spectacular new image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, a celestial menagerie of different objects and phenomena in part of the LMC is on display, ranging from vast globular clusters to the remains left by brilliant supernovae explosions. This fascinating observation provides data for a wide variety of research projects unravelling the life and death of stars and the evolution of galaxies. (read more)

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Jun 10

A chance to name ESA's next astronaut mission

Source: ESA

ESA has now opened the possibility of people to try to suggest a name for next mission to the ISS. An oportunity not to loose.

ESA's promotion slogan is "ESA’s Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli will soon visit the International Space Station, and he needs your help to name his mission." (read more)

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