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The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

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Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

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