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LIGO discovers new gravitational wave – and new era of astronomy
The detector's latest discovery means we are now firmly in a new era of astronomy – it matches up convincingly with what we already know about black holes
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Milky Way obscured by light pollution for a third of the world
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Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice
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Packing for space flattened NASA’s inflatable space hotel
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Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe
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Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun
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Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system
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The diehards who survey the sky from a backyard shed
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Kepler doubles exoplanet population with 1284 new planets
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Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade
The historic detection of gravitational waves, announced in February, left Â鶹´«Ã½ with an unprecedented postbag of questions from readers. We didn't have space to answer them all, but we put a selection of them to gravitational wave expert Martin Hendry of the University of Glasgow, UK, who is a member of the LIGO collaboration that made the discovery
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First global Mercury map shows its hills and valleys in detail
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New exoplanet trio may have been dried out by fiery young star
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Syzygy exhibition squeezes cosmic wonders into everyday objects
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Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life
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