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Giant balls of hot gas that burn for millions to billions of years. 

Concentrations of matter with gravity so powerful not even light can escape.

Collections of stars, planets, and vast clouds of gas and dust bound together by gravity.

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NASA, JAXA XRISM Satellite X-rays Milky Way’s Sulfur

Sulfur helps cells work properly in our bodies on Earth and is an important part of a planet’s habitability, or its ability to support life. But we still have a lot of questions about where sulfur is found in the universe. Now, using XRISM, scientists have discovered gaseous sulfur and sulfur mixed with iron in the gas and dust found between stars.

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NASA’s HWO is the Next Big Leap in Humanity’s Search for Cosmic Company

Finding signs of life on planets outside our solar system won’t be easy and will take the most powerful telescope ever built. That’s where NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) comes in.

This next-generation mission will build on the groundbreaking tech behind the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space Telescopes to peer into the cosmos and find the unique planets that can support life – and maybe even reveal signs of life itself.

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