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House in night sky

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How to measure light pollution where you live by counting stars

If you're an urban stargazer it helps to know how much light pollution there is in your area. Here's a star-based test to find out

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How to find the North Star and Southern Cross

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How to find the North Star and Southern Cross

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Star near planet

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Stars that eat planets can start spinning so fast they rip apart

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A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun

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A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun

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Antarctic snow amid mountains

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Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

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

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

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Telescope with milky way in the night sky above

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

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3D map of the Milky Way

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

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Black hole swallows matter

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Star hurtling around a giant black hole proves Einstein right - again

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Two stars orbiting each other

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Two incredibly fast-orbiting stars seem to be the wrong temperature

A pair of distant stars orbit one another in a fast-paced system that would fit inside Saturn, and neither star seems to be the temperature that we’d expect

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

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Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter

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Mystery of universe’s expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation

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The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled

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