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A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy

A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge

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Billions of stars have swallowed up a planet

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Artist's impression of a planet skimming the surface of its star

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Weird floating crystals can stop stars ageing for billions of years

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Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

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Weird white dwarf star has a metal scar after eating a planet

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

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What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life

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Artist's impression of a cloud of smoke and dust being thrown out by a red giant star

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Newly discovered smoking stars emit huge clouds and we don't know why

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Star cluster is heading for destruction at the heart of the Milky Way

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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

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AI predicts age of newly discovered supernovae within milliseconds

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The possible view from LHS 3154b towards its host star

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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)

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

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