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Planet in a double star system

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Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion

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Risk of a star destroying the solar system is higher than expected

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Was a famous supernova an alien invader from another galaxy?

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artist's impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around its host stars

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Exoplanet found in odd perpendicular orbit to brown dwarf star pair

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The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dust

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The first water may have formed surprisingly soon after the big bang

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Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode

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Supernova explosion

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A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system

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The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why

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This mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82) is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82. It is a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy.

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Stellar views of some of the most spectacular sights in the universe

These dazzling images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are from the upcoming book Cosmos: Explore the wonders of the universe, which has a foreword by astrophysicist Becky Smethurst

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Bubbles of gas 75 times larger than our sun spotted on another star

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Get ready to spot comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS next month

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Dark matter could be hiding inside strange failed stars

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JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets

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