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Supernova 1987A shines brightly close to centre of this image

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Supernovae might be a good place to hunt for alien broadcasts

Other intelligent civilisations may send transmissions after a bright galactic event like a supernova to make them more visible to others, according to SETI researchers

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The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b

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‘Forbidden’ planet somehow escaped consumption by its dying host star

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The Southern Ring Nebula. The left image highlights the very hot gas and the right image the stars

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Amazing JWST images show a nebula shaped by a multi-star system

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This illustration shows material from a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole

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Supermassive black hole snacks on the same star once every few years

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The James Webb Space Telescope

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JWST finds that ancient galaxies contain fewer stars than we expected

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The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded within a cloud of material feeding its growth. Ejections from the star have cleared out cavities above and below it, whose boundaries glow orange and blue in this infrared view. The upper central region displays bubble-like shapes due to stellar ?burps,? or sporadic ejections.

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JWST sees a stunning hourglass of light around a still-forming star

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A glittering multitude of stars

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We may finally know how impossible stars at our galaxy's centre formed

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A white dwarf star accreting debris

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Planets around graveyard star were consumed before Earth was even born

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A concept image of a magnetar

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A weird dead star may have a solid-like surface made of iron crystals

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This image shows the Hyades star cluster, the nearest cluster to us. The Hyades cluster is very well studied due to its location, but previous searches for planets have produced only one. A new study led by Jay Farihi of the University of Cambridge, UK, has now found the atmospheres of two burnt-out stars in this cluster ??? known as white dwarfs ??? to be ???polluted??? by rocky debris circling the star. Seeing evidence of asteroids points to the possibility of Earth-sized planets in the same system, as asteroids are the building blocks of major planets. Planet-forming processes are inefficient, and spawn many times more small bodies than large bodies ??? but once rocky embryos the size of asteroids are built, planets are sure to follow.

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Crooked star clusters may be a sign that Einstein’s gravity is wrong

Astronomers have found an unexpected asymmetry in stars escaping from their clusters, and it can't be easily explained by our standard theories of gravity

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An incredibly bright star has lost its gas and is just a leftover core

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Neutron stars may fire out neutrino beams like a laser light show

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Lightest neutron star ever found could contain compressed quarks

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JWST has taken a star-studded new image of the Pillars of Creation

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