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Weird ancient burst of light in the sky turns out to be a nova

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Weird ancient burst of light in the sky turns out to be a nova

Six centuries ago, Korean astronomers recorded a bright spot in the night sky. A 25-year hunt for that star has settled a debate about how classical novae behave

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stars

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Nobody knows how these baby stars got so close to our black hole

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Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

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Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

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Kepler planetary disk

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‘Alien megastructure’ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet

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Solar eclipse

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Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home

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A binary start system with a white dwarf pulling material off its partner star

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Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova

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Exploding lightbulb

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Eight great accidents in scientific discovery

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

By using the timing of planets’ orbits around their stars, all the advanced civilizations that may exist in the Milky Way could communicate

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Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming

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Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

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Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other

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Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time

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