Space
Small galaxies may only give birth to small stars
It's as if small towns could only produce small people: dwarf galaxies may not be able to produce the largest stars
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Physics
Slim and beautiful: Galaxies too good to be true
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Space
Meet the league of extraordinary supernovae
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Space
Into the breeches: A makeover for Longitude’s villain
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Space
Birthplace of ‘hot Neptunes’ revealed
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Space
Milky Way faces midlife crisis
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No place like home: Our lonesome solar system
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Earth
Alien life may huddle under hydrogen blankets
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Physics
The universe’s first stars were whirling dervishes
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Life
Revelations of stars’ ages will be a boon for SETI
We are closer to measuring the ages of 500 sun-like stars – a key factor in determining whether their planets can host intelligent life
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Space
Empty universe: Cosmology in the year 100 billion
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Space
Backward stars point to galactic cannibalism
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Space
Giant ‘quasi-stars’ spawned early black holes
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Space
Eight extremes: The biggest things in the universe
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