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‘Impossible’ star explosions made by gas and solar wind pile-up
Stellar explosions often shine brighter than is theoretically possible without blowing up entirely. Debris cloud smash-ups could be amplifying the light
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Hidden pockets of turbulent gas fuel stars in far-off galaxies
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Weird ancient burst of light in the sky turns out to be a nova
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Nobody knows how these baby stars got so close to our black hole
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Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets
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鈥楢lien megastructure鈥� star may host Saturn-like exoplanet
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Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home
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Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova
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Eight great accidents in scientific discovery
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Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning
Fifty years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered a mysterious, pulsing radio signal 鈥� and the downsides of being a young woman in science
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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away
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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years
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Sun鈥檚 gravity could power interstellar video streaming
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Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern
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