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We've found the oldest ever galaxy that looks like our own

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We've found the oldest ever galaxy that looks like our own

A galaxy made up of a rotating disc of dust and stars has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the big bang, which changes our view of how these vast objects form

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Strange 'space cow' explosion may have been the birth of a black hole

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Strange 'space cow' explosion may have been the birth of a black hole

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Milky Way's black hole

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Our galaxy’s huge black hole may have created organic molecules

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A man gazes at the Milky Way

Space

Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

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The Milky Way

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A single star has let us put a date on our galaxy’s last cosmic meal

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Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.

Physics

Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

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Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

Physics

Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

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Map of gas filaments and galxies

Space

We've had our best glimpse of a web of matter that spans the universe

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Andromeda galaxy

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Andromeda galaxy ate several dwarf galaxies in two-course lunch

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Galaxies in space

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Weird galaxies suggest our best understanding of the cosmos is wrong

We have found two weird galaxies that either have no dark matter or are travelling insanely fast. Our best models of the cosmos can't explain how they exist

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Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?

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Space

There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

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Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

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Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

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