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Our sun grew fat when a sausage collided with the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered that a major prang between galaxies 10 billion years ago supplied extra gases that helped our sun grow
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Clouds of spinning diamonds around stars solve an old mystery
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Ultrahot planets bust up molecules then rebuild them into clouds
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Clouds of plasma let us zoom in on weird flashes from space
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Stunning first image sent back by NASA鈥檚 planet-hunter satellite
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Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds
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Some of the universe’s first stars have actually been seen
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Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves
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Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What鈥檚 eating the first starlight?
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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030
The European Space Agency has three finalists for a mission to launch by 2030: a Venus probe and two space telescopes to view ancient gamma rays and young stars
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The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years
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Stars from outside the Milky Way seen zooming through the galaxy
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Colossal exoplanet has an enormous comet-like tail of helium
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We鈥檝e mapped 90 per cent of the stars in our bit of the galaxy
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