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Explosive facelift left star looking much younger than its true age
A faraway star surrounded by a strange cloud of dust and gas had an explosive rebirth, spitting out debris and dimming by a factor of 10,000 in less than 50 years
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Space
See the bright lights and spectacular colours of our shining universe
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We’ve just seen a huge space explosion and don’t know what it is
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The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed
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Humans
I’m working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens
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Space
See a cosmic spider caught spinning up brand new stars
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Clouds of plasma let us zoom in on weird flashes from space
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Some of the universe’s first stars have actually been seen
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Physics
Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What鈥檚 eating the first starlight?
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The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made
The Gaia satellite rotates as it scans the entire sky, creating beautiful patterns as it makes the best 3D map of our galaxy we have ever had
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Far-off black hole appears to be shredding and devouring a star
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A star has been seen exploding faster than any other on record
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We鈥檝e just spotted the brightest mystery radio burst from space
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Physics
Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole
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