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Geraint Lewis at Â鶹´«Ã½ Live 2019

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The search for aliens: Is anybody out there?

Intelligent life in the universe seems to be vanishingly rare. Astrophysicist Geraint Lewis reveals our odds of us ever meeting aliens

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Andromeda galaxy

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How to find Andromeda – a spiral galaxy you can see with the naked eye

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Melissa Uchida

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Why neutrinos could answer some of the biggest questions in the cosmos

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Supernova

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Black holes formed from dark matter could be making dead stars explode

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Northern lights

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See the northern lights or aurora borealis: Follow this easy guide

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Time travel and black holes: The weird promise of Einstein’s universe

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Time travel and black holes: The weird promise of Einstein’s universe

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Michele Bannister

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The inside story on 'Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

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We’ve found the missing neutron star at the centre of a supernova

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We’ve found the missing neutron star at the centre of a supernova

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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.

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Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

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How to watch Mercury's transit of the sun with just binoculars

On 11 November, the innermost planet of the solar system will make a rare crossing of the face of the sun. Here's how to see it without expensive kit

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We've finally figured out what happens when a star explodes

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How to spot Taurus, star clusters and a meteor shower in the night sky

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The ‘nuclear pasta’ in neutron stars could transform particle physics

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Spot six planets in the sky this week: Mercury, Mars, Uranus and more

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