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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

Dust gives us trouble, whether at home or in space, but it plays a key role in star formation and destruction, and in allowing us to understand huge objects like galaxies says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe?

Space

What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe?

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How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

Technology

How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

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Cosmic inflation

Definition

Cosmic inflation

Claire Burke

Technology

Claire Burke on using thermal drone tech to protect orangutans

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How did the universe begin?

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How did the universe begin?

Mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose

People in Science

Roger Penrose

Isaac Newton

People in Science

Isaac Newton

We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own

Space

We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own

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Black hole-neutron star merger

Space

LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star

In a cosmic clash of the titans, we may have just spotted a black hole eat a neutron star - the first collision seen between a mixed pair of these massive objects

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Physics

What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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Space

LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on

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Space

Antony Gormley’s virtual reality adventure lets you ski on the moon

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Space

Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery

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