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his year was full of astronomical breakthroughs in space.
Photos captured phenomena nobody had ever seen before. Ambitious spacecraft revealed new secrets about the sun and the edges of our solar system. Astronomers spotted the brightest light in the universe, found new planets circling distant stars, and detected a collision between a black hole and a neutron star that warped the fabric of space-time.
Image: An artist's illustration of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. NASA
