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The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years

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The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years

We used to think our sun was too small to produce a planetary nebula when it dies, but new models show it will indeed go out in a massive cloud of bright, hot gas

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Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why

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Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why

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Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet

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Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet

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Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons

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Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons

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Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

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Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

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Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun

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Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

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Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

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Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

Ceres, a distant dwarf planet, hosts sheets of ice just under its surface. In the summer, some of this ice may sublimate and coat shadowy crater walls in frost

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The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

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