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Imagine seven years of Halloween and pumpkin spice.

A pair of spiral galaxies that appear to be adorned with wispy loops of hydrogen gas, studded with stars, perpendicular to their spiral arms.

SSLV is a 3-stage launch vehicle capable of launching approximately 500kg satellite in 500-km planar orbit. According to ISRO, the key features of SSLV are low cost, with low turn-around time, flexibility in accommodating multiple satellites, launch-on-demand feasibility, and minimal launch infrastructure requirements.

Astronomer says the best way to spot it will be at sunrise and sunset away from light pollution, but warns comets are unpredictable

Interstellar twinkling could leave enough of an imprint on extraterrestrial narrowband signals to distinguish them from terrestrial radio emissions.

A huge planet called K2-18b has methane and carbon dioxide mixed in with its mostly hydrogen atmosphere

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The exoplanet K2-18 b – which is outside the solar system – is 8.6 times as massive as Earth

The new observations have also provided a last glimpse of Saturn’s north pole, before it begins to recede into the darkness of polar winter.

In a new space race, India, China, Russia and the United States all are focusing on the south pole of the moon – aiming to soft-land, send a crewed mission and eventually build a lunar base camp there

The James Webb Space Telescope has completely revolutionized the search for galaxy neighborhoods