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The Iris Nebula
The Iris Nebula is a reflection nebula 1,300 light years away, illuminated by a partially embedded star (SAO 19158) which is 10X the size of our Sun. The…
New Milky Way Project Paper Brilliantly Fuses Citizen Science and Machine Learning
A new Milky Way Project paper was published to the arXiv last week. The paper presents Brut, an algorithm trained to identify bubbles in infrared images of the…
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A Brand New Milky Way Project
[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/2026/02/1771788064982-u18vnf.jpg) Just over three years the Zooniverse launched the Milky Way Project (MWP), my…
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Large Magellanic Cloud as seen by Herschel and Spitzer
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy orbiting around our own Milky Way. You can see it from the Southern Hemisphere but not like this! This image…