Space
Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space
Plotting a course through outer space is tricky, but stellar corpses called pulsars are pointing the way to a new form of celestial navigation
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Space
Milky Way’s central bar stirs in stars like a candy floss mixer
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Physics
Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto
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Space
Mystery supernova could be fast-spinning magnetic star
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Physics
Ancient quasars in distant galaxies caught switching on suddenly
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Space
Comets can’t explain weird ‘alien megastructure’ star after all
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We’ve found the brightest ever supernova but can’t explain it
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Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour
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Physics
Tiny dark matter stars would harbour particles that act as one
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Space
A threesome may explain behaviour of galaxy’s most bizarre star
The odd behaviour of the Eta Carinae star system has puzzled astronomers since the 1800s, but now we might finally have an explanation
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Physics
Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line
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Space
Thieving Milky Way stole distant star cluster from neighbour
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Life
Journeys of a lifetime: How your bones began in a star’s core
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Journeys of a lifetime: Why to look at a star is to touch it
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