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neon swirls

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The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made

The Gaia satellite rotates as it scans the entire sky, creating beautiful patterns as it makes the best 3D map of our galaxy we have ever had

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We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster

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We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster

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This image of the area around galactic centre is a composite of images taken in X-ray, optical, and infrared wavelengths

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The centre of our galaxy may be swarming with 10,000 black holes

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Centre of the Milky Way

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Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole

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Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?

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Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?

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Galaxies

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Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation

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Emission nebula Sharpless 2-106

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The ugly, fractured reality of the cosmos deserves our attention

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

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Galaxies

Physics

We've found a bunch of dwarf galaxies we thought didn't exist

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We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away

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We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away

Astronomers have spotted a trio of galaxies that look remarkably like the giant spiral of the Milky Way and its two brightest companions, the Magellanic Clouds

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Why our 'freakish' galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried

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Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack

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Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

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Spiralling galaxy arms spread oxygen around for future planets

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