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Innovative bird-eye-inspired camera developed for enhanced object detection

Structures and functions of bird’s eye. (a) Bird vision. (b) Deep central fovea and four types of cones. (c) Foveated vision and tetrachromatic vision. The eyes of raptors such as eagles can ...

Hubble’s Newest Discovery Isn’t a Star, It’s a Window Into the Dark Universe

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

NASA finds starless, dark-matter astronomical object using Hubble Space Telescope — first confirmed detection of its kind in universe

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” ...
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Astronomers Detect Mysterious Dark Object in Distant Galaxy

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. In a ...
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“A New Type of Astronomical Object”: Hubble Telescope Confirms First Detection of a “Relic” Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted an object unlike any previously observed, revealing an unusual remnant of the ...
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Hubble takes a closer look at the first of a new type of object

Astronomers with Hubble have spotted “Cloud‑9”, a ghostly, starless cloud of dark matter and hydrogen, a fossil relic from ...