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Nobody knows how these baby stars got so close to our black hole

A group of stars orbits so close to the Milky Way’s black hole that they could have never formed there. But they’re too young to have been born further away

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Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

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Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

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Kepler planetary disk

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‘Alien megastructure’ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet

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Solar eclipse

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Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home

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A binary start system with a white dwarf pulling material off its partner star

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Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova

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Exploding lightbulb

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Eight great accidents in scientific discovery

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming

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Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming

Space transmissions could slingshot around the sun for a signal boost, producing data rates fast enough to stream video from interstellar space

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Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

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Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other

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Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time

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General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole

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