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Artist?s illustration of tidal disruption event where a supermassive black hole spaghettifies and gobbles down a star. Some of the material is not consumed by the black hole and is flung back out into space.

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A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later

A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling around 50 per cent the speed of light two years later – astronomers don’t know why it took so long

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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This artist???s impression shows a field of Population III stars as they would have appeared a mere 100 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers may have discovered the first signs of their ancient chemical remains in the clouds surrounding one of the most distant quasars ever detected

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Light from a quasar shows hints of one of the universe’s first stars

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This artist's concept shows an auroral display on a brown dwarf. If you could see an aurora on a brown dwarf, it would be a million times brighter than an aurora on Earth.

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Weird ‘failed star’ seen blasting off its outer layers for first time

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In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb?s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. The most active region appears to sparkle with massive young stars, appearing pale blue. Scattered among them are still-embedded stars, appearing red, yet to emerge from the dusty cocoon of the nebula. NIRCam is able to detect these dust-enshrouded stars thanks to its unprecedented resolution at near-infrared wavelengths.

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JWST's dazzling nebula image shows stars we have never seen before

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The James Webb telescope

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JWST reveals young star that may be about to give birth to a planet

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The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the ninth brightest star in the night sky

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The star Betelgeuse has stopped dimming – but it's still acting weird

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The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan.

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How to spot the group of stars known as the Teapot

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JWST captures the most distant star ever seen in incredible detail

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A radio telescope array

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Astronomers devise new way to observe traces of the first stars

New techniques will be deployed to observe radio emissions from the early universe, helping us understand signals first detected in 2018

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James Webb Space Telescope releases dazzling first science images

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Mysterious cold blobs may be hiding inside a distant star

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Small explosions called micronovae discovered on dead stars

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Gravitational waves could let us find tiny black holes devouring stars

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