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Artist's impression of a planet around a red giant star

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Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun

We thought there was no chance our world could survive the fiery death of the sun in another 5 billion years. Now sightings of strange "orphan planets" might force us to rewrite the story

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The remnants of a supernova

Technology

AI predicts age of newly discovered supernovae within milliseconds

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The possible view from LHS 3154b towards its host star

Space

Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shouldn’t exist

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KPJYBX Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth?s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particl

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Why we need to bring stellar astrophysics into the real world

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Artist's impression of the path the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A took between the distant galaxy where it originated and Earth, in one of the Milky Way's spiral arms (not to scale)

Space

A blast of radio waves hit Earth after travelling for 8 billion years

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Space

Two giant planets collided and vaporised in a distant star system

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The Milky Way

Space

We can only predict star motion in the Milky Way’s heart for 462 years

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Herbig-Haro 211

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JWST has taken an astonishing image of a baby star with powerful jets

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E036X7 Constellation Cygnus (Cyg), one of the modern constellations from "Constellations" serie

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It’s a great time to see the Cygnus constellation – here’s how

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Space

JWST may have seen black holes suppressing the creation of new stars

The supermassive black holes at the centre of many galaxies were suspected to quench the formation of new stars – now the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted evidence of this  

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Space

Astronomers have found a strange new type of extremely magnetic star

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Giant star rocked by waves three times larger than our sun

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Space

What are the weirdest stars in the universe?

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Space

The most distant individual star ever seen may actually be two stars

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