NASA drops 'colonial' nicknames for distant cosmic objects

Friday, August 7, 2020 - 13:20 in Astronomy & Space

A nebula and a pair of galaxies will now be referred to by a string of numbers as NASA reviews “insensitive” and “actively harmful” nicknames.

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