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Eclipse chasers: Why NASA jets will pursue solar totality

During the total solar eclipse on 8 April, two of NASA's WB-57 jet planes, equipped with special instruments, will chase totality and give new insight into the sun's corona

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I might be an astrophysicist, but I’m still learning about stargazing

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Artist's impression of a super-Earth

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Planet caught in a gravitational ‘tidal storm’ is so hot that it glows

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One of NASA’s WB-57F research jets

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The ambitious plans to study the sun during April’s solar eclipse

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Is the truth out there? Yes, but it doesn’t involve aliens

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2BERRPE Spring sky panorama with Milky Way and constellations at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada.

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How to spot the Spring Triangle as the equinox approaches

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Sleeping black hole is way more massive than it should be

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Huge set of galaxies is set to form largest cluster in known universe

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Famous supernova left a blazing hot neutron star at its centre

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Monster black hole powers the brightest known object in the universe

Astronomers have found a quasar 12 billion light years away hosting a supermassive black hole that gobbles up a sun-sized amount of mass every day

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In a new era of astronomy, we’re feeling for vibrations in space-time

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How to spot the constellations Perseus and Auriga

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Galaxy smash-ups may explain strange light from early universe

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New fiery doughnut image is our most detailed glimpse of a black hole

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