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The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

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