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In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands works on essential mission work.

NGC 613, a barred spiral galaxy 67 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor, shows its stunning stellar markings in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Reuters Scientists at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a novel method to measure the mass of the Milky Way galaxy based on temperature measurements of the hot diffuse gas in the Milky Way halo. A paper about the research was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters in late November. The method proposed by professor Guo Fulai and his team uses the hot halo gas as a tracer for Milky Way mass. The research group investigated the spati...