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Image shows the surface of a rocky planet in the foreground in the lower half of the picture, a starry sky above with a red dwarf star. Material from the star is being pulled on to a small white dwarf star in a curving path.
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A New Method to Detect Exoplanets

In recent years, a large number of exoplanets have been found around single ‘normal’ stars. New research shows that there may be exceptions to this trend. Researchers from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), the...
A map of the Earth with the locations of plasma bubble events superimposed on it.
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Predicting equatorial plasma bubbles with SWARM

A still picture from an animation of the build up of dust looking out from the Earth into the Milky Way galaxy
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Deep dive into the dusty Milky Way

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Stills from Rebecca Nealon protoplanetary disk simulation
Rocking shadows in protoplanetary discs
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A side by side composite of a patient's back showing a few moles (right), and the same moles in white on a black background (left), looking like stellar objects.
MoleGazer: Applying astronomy ideas to mole identification
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Image shows a grid of 35 different galaxies in ring like shapes, in faint blue colours.
Cyborg collaboration finds 40,000 ring galaxies
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Image of the Magellanic Cloud, a faint loosely bound galaxy in light blue colours.
Beyond the Clouds: Finding Galaxies Behind Galaxies
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Space weather will delay your trains
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Beating the system: engaging the “unreachable” on social media
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Scientists unveil most accurate virtual representation of the Universe
An illustration of a blue-white hued star in space surrounded by rings of orange and brown coloured planetary material. A small planet, blue in colour, lies just off the centre of the image.
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Planetary bodies observed in habitable zone of dead star
A diffuse galaxy in green and blue hues. White and orange stars appear around the clouds of the galaxy.
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Evidence emerges for dark-matter free galaxies
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The last breaths of massive galaxies
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