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CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star's history of violence

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CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star's history of violence

A strange star called Eta Carinae erupted like a supernova in 1843, yet lived to tell the tale. New observations reveal two earlier outbursts

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Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere

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Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere

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Galaxies

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Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars

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The galaxy M82

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Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years

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Red star surrounded by ordinary white stars. V838 Monocerotis, another red nova which erupted in 2002

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Mating stars hide their modesty behind a thick veil of dust

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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way

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Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way

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artist's impression of planets around a red dwarf star

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Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end

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Flickr pix

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Cosmological conceits blossom under Finland's midnight sun

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V883 Orionis's protoplanetary disc

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Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants

A newborn star's fiery temper tantrum pushed its "snow line" far enough out that astronomers could spot it

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Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

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Milky Way obscured by light pollution for a third of the world

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Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves

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Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets

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