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Red flash at the centre of dusty ring

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Cannibal stars explode violently – as predicted by Darwin's son

We now think one star swallowing another causes rare, bright red novae, but George Darwin had worked out the key details in the 19th century

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amateur astronomer in observatory

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The diehards who survey the sky from a backyard shed

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Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life

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Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life

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cosmic web

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See a cosmic spider as it entices a nearby galaxy

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A pretty picture of lots of stars, large and small, with a cloudy blue backdrop presumably made of more stars

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Milky Way's nearest galaxies may be new to the neighbourhood

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Alpha Centauri

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Billionaire pledges $100m to send spaceships to Alpha Centauri

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two galaxies

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Our galaxy's impossible collision could break gravity

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Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death

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Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death

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Milky Way

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Ageing Milky Way stopped making stars before it ran out of gas

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Binary star system in Pismis 24, Hubble Space Telescope image

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Binary stars burned off cosmic fog and made universe transparent

The light that broke up the early universe's gas and made intergalactic space transparent probably came from binary star systems

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Long-lost stellar siblings probe the Milky Way's violent history

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Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space

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Milky Way's central bar stirs in stars like a candy floss mixer

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Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto

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