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Vast worlds called brown dwarfs have extraordinarily powerful winds
Brown dwarfs, which are halfway between huge planets and small stars, have extremely powerful winds whipping around them at speeds of about 650 metres per second
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Supermassive stars may have formed by repeatedly eating their siblings
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Physics
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The unsung discoverer of star chemistry
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Space
Neutrinos determined where galaxies formed in the early universe
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Weird star was born when two white dwarfs merged instead of blowing up
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A wobbling star may explain pattern of weird radio signals from space
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A star exploded into a supernova but it weirdly isn’t very bright
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Two stars with an odd wobble are stretching space and time around them
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The best picture ever taken of the sun reveals its bizarre surface
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Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery
How can we get a picture of the whole Milky Way if we are inside it? Good sleuthing is needed to combine all the clues, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Mysteriously bright supernova may have smashed up a huge gas cloud
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A Scheme of Heaven reveals what scientists can learn from astrology
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Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy鈥檚 huge black hole
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A single star has let us put a date on our galaxy鈥檚 last cosmic meal
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