Space superlatives: The universe’s extreme performers
From a puffed-up planet to a galaxy cloaked in dark matter, Â鶹´«Ã½ rounds up some of the biggest, darkest, fastest and hottest players in the cosmos
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Eight extremes: The hottest thing in the universe
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Eight extremes: The brightest thing in the universe
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Eight extremes: The roundest thing in the universe
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Life
Starless planets may be habitable after all
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Neutron star seen forming exotic new state of matter
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Space
When is a group of stars not a galaxy?
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What’s eating the stars out of our galaxy’s heart?
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Tilting stars may explain backwards planets
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Biggest star ever found may be ticking antimatter bomb
The most massive star known to humans has been identified – and one day it may die in an exotic antimatter explosion
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Single star count ups odds of ET
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Heart of darkness could explain sun mysteries
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Young stars found at record-breaking distances
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Earth
What’s wrong with the sun?
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