Space
Mating stars hide their modesty behind a thick veil of dust
Astronomers got their best ever look at merging stars when a pair called V1309 Scorpii got together in 2008, but now they have gone into hiding
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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars
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Canadian meteorite may be first visitor from the Kuiper belt
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Here’s how to watch the great Perseid meteor shower tonight
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Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers
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Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is making its atmosphere hotter
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Torn-apart galaxy may be exacting revenge on the Milky Way
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Bye bye Philae! Comet team to lose touch with lander for good
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Physics
Einstein’s clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by
Astrophile is Joshua Sokol's monthly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse
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Physics
Mysterious swoosh caused by pulsars hugging companions close
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Baby stars grow big and strong by eating their own burst bubbles
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Largest-ever map of 1.2 million galaxies measures dark energy
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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling
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