Space Superlatives of 2022

As we wrap up 2022, we'd like to celebrate a few of the cosmic “winners” discovered this year, at least while they still hold their titles.

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Sources:


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220829112925.htm
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac88c1
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221005111908.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05195-x
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220330124628.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04449-y

Images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Ring_Nebula_by_Webb_Telescope_(2022).jpg
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2206/life-and-death-of-a-planetary-system/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/helix-nebula.html
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30858
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12706
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13512
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Accretion_Disk_Binary_System.jpg
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2207c/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sunrise_Arc_galaxy_with_lensed_star_Earendel_-b.png
https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubble-sees-a-smiling-lens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Keplers_supernova.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M37_Mazur_full.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NGC6781.jpg
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac88c1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-Star-Earendel-HubbleST-20220330.png