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Mars is unusually close this month – here's how to spot it in the sky

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Mars is unusually close this month – here's how to spot it in the sky

Earth and Mars are closer this month than they have been since 2003. To spot the Red Planet, look for a bright red object towards the east after sunset or west before sunrise, says Abigail Beall

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Astronomers may have found the first planet in another galaxy

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Astronomers may have found the first planet in another galaxy

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Dark matter in galaxy clusters is behaving oddly and we don't know why

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Dark matter in galaxy clusters is behaving oddly and we don't know why

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Large Magellanic Cloud

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Strange fast-moving clouds of gas may be suffocating the Milky Way

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early galaxy

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Ancient serene galaxy suggests the early universe was eerily calm

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The Milky Way and surrounding dwarf galaxies

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The Milky Way is about to completely obliterate a neighbouring galaxy

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Spiral galaxies

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The entire universe may once have been spinning all over the place

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The Milky Way may have been shrunk down by ancient magnetic fields

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The Milky Way may have been shrunk down by ancient magnetic fields

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ASKAP radio telescope

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Strange radio signals reveal the matter hiding between galaxies

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Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

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The sun may have formed because a small galaxy passed by the Milky Way

A small galaxy called Sagittarius passed close to the Milky Way four times in the past 6 billion years, which may have caused periods of intense star formation

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We've found the oldest ever galaxy that looks like our own

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Strange 'space cow' explosion may have been the birth of a black hole

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Our galaxy’s huge black hole may have created organic molecules

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Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

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