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Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

The Magellanic stream is a cloud of dust and gas that wraps around our galaxy. It has long been thought to host stars, but they have never been seen until now

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Three distant quasars have bubbles of ionised gas around them

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'Superbubbles' of gas around quasars may form thanks to powerful winds

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The Milky Way could contain thousands of stars from another galaxy

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What the huge young galaxies seen by JWST tell us about the universe

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What the huge young galaxies seen by JWST tell us about the universe

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Fast-growing galaxy seen by JWST offers window on the early universe

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We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particle”

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We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particle”

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Seven galaxies highlighted here in five boxes are part of the most distant galaxy cluster ever found

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JWST has spotted the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen

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inventory of the universe

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Your essential guide to the many breathtaking wonders of the universe

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A supermassive black hole is hurtling away from its home galaxy

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The lonely galaxy containing a supermassive black hole, two jets, and an X-ray hotspot, all surrounded by hot gas

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Galaxy may have eaten all its neighbours and now it's all alone

Astronomers have spotted an object with all the hallmarks of a galaxy cluster, but containing only one galaxy – hinting it may have swallowed up all of its neighbours

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Galaxies’ missing matter may be found – but now there’s too much of it

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Huge young galaxies seen by JWST may upend our models of the universe

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Galaxy clusters are smashing together to form 'flaming cosmic narwhal'

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JWST finds that ancient galaxies contain fewer stars than we expected

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