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Earlier this month, Mercury took center stage in a recent video montage created from the snapshots of three cameras currently hitching a ride through the inner Solar System.

The cameras’ 1024 by 1024 pixel images typically monitor the booms and antennas of BepiColombo, humanity’s third mission — and Europe’s first — to the smallest planet in our cosmic neighborhood. But on September 4, the cameras obtained a clear view of Mercury’s south pole and captured shots of this mysterious planet’s textured surface.

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Astrophysicists Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole Slowly Starving a Galaxy to Death

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently helped solve a cosmic “murder,” the untimely demise of Pablo’s Galaxy, more formally known as GS-10578: a disc-shaped galaxy about the size of our Milky Way. Its time of death? Just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

Light from this distant galaxy had to begin its trip across the cosmos about 2 billion years after the Big Bang in order to reach Earth, giving us a snapshot of the early universe. But the snapshot that reached us is basically a celestial crime scene photo, because in galactic terms, Pablo’s Galaxy is dead, meaning that it’s stopped forming new stars. Using JWST’s instruments, Cambridge University astrophysicist Francesco d’Eugenio and his colleagues caught a supermassive black hole red-handed, slowly starving the galaxy to death.

“We found the culprit: the black hole is killing this galaxy,” says d’Eugenio, who led the recent study, in a statement. He and his colleagues published their work in the journal Nature Astronomy.

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