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The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

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The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe

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The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

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The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

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We've spotted the shock wave from an invisible explosion in space

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We've spotted the shock wave from an invisible explosion in space

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10 mysteries of the universe: How will it all end?

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10 mysteries of the universe: How will it all end?

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10 mysteries of the universe: What makes monster stars?

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10 mysteries of the universe: What makes monster stars?

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Pulsar

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We’ve found a pulsar spinning so slowly that it shouldn’t exist

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night sky

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Inside the stargazer's paradise where all outside lights are banned

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A neutron star

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Neutron stars bend light so much we see their front and back at once

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Explosive facelift left star looking much younger than its true age

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Explosive facelift left star looking much younger than its true age

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The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years

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The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years

The sun’s size changes throughout its 11-year cycle of magnetic activity, and measuring that growth may help us figure out what’s going on inside

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Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life

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Our sun grew fat when a sausage collided with the Milky Way

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Clouds of spinning diamonds around stars solve an old mystery

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Ultrahot planets bust up molecules then rebuild them into clouds

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