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Orion constellation

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How to use the Orion constellation to find Sirius the dog star

Some of the sky's brightest stars including Rigel and Betelgeuse are located in the iconic constellation Orion. Here's how to find it and then star-hop to Sirius

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House in night sky

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How to measure light pollution where you live by counting stars

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How to find the North Star and Southern Cross

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How to find the North Star and Southern Cross

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Star near planet

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Stars that eat planets can start spinning so fast they rip apart

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A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun

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A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun

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Antarctic snow amid mountains

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Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

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How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

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How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

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Telescope with milky way in the night sky above

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We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space

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3D map of the Milky Way

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Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape

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Black hole swallows matter

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Star hurtling around a giant black hole proves Einstein right - again

We watched a star orbit the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy for 24 years and its light is stretched just as Einstein predicted it should be

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Two incredibly fast-orbiting stars seem to be the wrong temperature

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The Milky Way devoured another galaxy and we've spotted the remains

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Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter

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Mystery of universe’s expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation

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