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Stunning first image sent back by NASA’s planet-hunter satellite

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Stunning first image sent back by NASA’s planet-hunter satellite

The beauty of the skies is on display in this incredible image, the first sent back by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite on its way past the moon

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Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds

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Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds

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Some of the universe's first stars have actually been seen

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Some of the universe's first stars have actually been seen

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Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves

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Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves

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sky artwork

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Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

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The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years

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The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years

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Stars from outside the Milky Way seen zooming through the galaxy

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Stars from outside the Milky Way seen zooming through the galaxy

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Colossal exoplanet has an enormous comet-like tail of helium

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Colossal exoplanet has an enormous comet-like tail of helium

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We’ve mapped 90 per cent of the stars in our bit of the galaxy

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We’ve mapped 90 per cent of the stars in our bit of the galaxy

We have plotted almost all the stars near Earth, and the majority are peaceful enough that life on the planets around them could be possible

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Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

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Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars

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Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why

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Distant Jupiter-like world may be the darkest planet ever found

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