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The Milky Way

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A single star has let us put a date on our galaxy’s last cosmic meal

The Milky Way ate another galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus, and the waves passing through a star have shown us that it happened at most 11.6 billion years ago

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Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.

Physics

Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

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Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

Physics

Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

Features

Map of gas filaments and galxies

Space

We've had our best glimpse of a web of matter that spans the universe

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Andromeda galaxy

Space

Andromeda galaxy ate several dwarf galaxies in two-course lunch

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Galaxies in space

Space

Weird galaxies suggest our best understanding of the cosmos is wrong

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spaceman

Space

Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?

Culture

There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

Space

There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

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Antarctic snow amid mountains

Space

Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

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Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

Space

Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

Astronomers were shocked to find the area around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way growing 75 times brighter in just two hours

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Space

We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe

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Space

We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space

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Space

Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape

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Space

The Milky Way devoured another galaxy and we've spotted the remains

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