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HDKGGA Milky Way. Night sky with stars and silhouette of a man

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The sky-measuring trick that every stargazer should know

There's a no-nonsense technique for navigating between stars and constellations and all it requires is putting your hand in the air, says Abigail Beall

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Artist's impression of a rare kind of stellar merger event between two white dwarf stars.

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Astronomers have found two unexpectedly hot stars covered in ash

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James Webb Space Telescope just sent back its first image - of itself

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James Webb Space Telescope just sent back its first image - of itself

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Space explosion

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Huge nuclear explosion in space is so rare we may never see one again

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This illustration shows the distant Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein as it might look in the outer Solar System. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it arguably the largest comet discovered in modern times. It has an extremely elongated orbit, journeying inward from the distant Oort Cloud over millions of years. It is the most distant comet to be discovered on its incoming path.

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Biggest comet from outer solar system ever seen is 137 kilometres wide

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First truly isolated black hole detected in interstellar space

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New Chandra observations have been used to make the first detection of X-ray emission from young stars with masses similar to our Sun outside our Milky Way galaxy. The Chandra observations of these low-mass stars were made of the region known as the

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Rare intergalactic supernova may have been seen outside the Milky Way

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2DC4CH7 Closeup of the double cluster of Perseus constellation, with many stars as background in the deep space, taken with my telescope.

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How to spot the Double Cluster and the Carina Nebula this week

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This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient

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A strange object in space is blasting out radio waves every 18 minutes

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James Webb Space Telescope fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final post launch course correction to Webb?s trajectory. This mid-course correction burn inserted Webb toward its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, nearly 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its final destination

After a month of travelling through space, the James Webb Space Telescope has reached its parking spot 1.5 million kilometres from Earth

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Largest 3D map of the universe contains 8 million galaxies

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Help discover the origins of meteor showers by spotting shooting stars

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Find the most distant galaxy visible to the naked eye

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The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on its way into orbit

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