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Strangest star: 6 things we didn’t know about the sun
With its fiery rains, speedy magnetic flips and an atmosphere that defies the laws of physics – our home star is as weird as it gets
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Nearby galaxy may be victim of dark matter hit-and-run
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First data from space megacamera delayed nine months
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First life-friendly exoplanet may not exist after all
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Cool planet hints at potential for life in double stars
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Pillars of creation built by big stellar bubble
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Twinkling Sirius spins its spectrum into a rainbow
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Clingy dark matter may slow corpse star spins
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Astrophile: Big blue star is an X-ray oddball
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Eye of Sauron star spotted by planet-hunting camera
An exoplanet-hunting add-on for the Very Large Telescope has taken its first images, revealing a stunning ringed star with unprecedented clarity
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Impossibly heavy planet is the first ‘mega-Earth’
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Earth-eating suns can help us hunt life-friendly worlds
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Supernovae have the right stuff to mix cement in space
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Milky Way’s fringe stars show our galaxy’s flare
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