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Pillars of Creation seen in new light
The European Space Agency has looked again at Hubble’s Pillars of Creation and turned up the wow factor with a new image.
Star cluster ruled out as Sun’s birthplace
New detective work has ruled out former favourite M67 as the star cluster which originally hatched our Sun.
Black hole is spitting ‘super-bullets’
Astronomers have spotted a black hole spitting out super-fast ‘bullets’ from the disk of material torn from a neighbouring star.
Galaxy is swarming with alien planets
Planets outnumber stars in the Milky Way, a new cosmic survey by astronomers concludes.
Do dead stars play cosmic pinball?
A desert-based project could be close to solving the century-old mystery of where cosmic rays come from.
Saturn debate is a clash of the Titans
Two leading planetary scientists have conducted a gentle but very public spat on Twitter over Saturn’s largest moon Titan.
Now let’s discover those alien moons!
With well over 700 planets so far discovered around other stars, astronomers are now looking to a fresh challenge – finding their moons.
Probing the heart of a stellar nursery
A striking image from the European Southern Observatory brings out the beauty of the Omega Nebula, a cosmic cloud where new stars are being born.
Asteroid is blip on face of Betelgeuse
An asteroid passed in front of brilliant star Betelgeuse yesterday – but there is little chance you would have noticed it.
Challenging mysteries of the Universe
Could our Universe co-exist with other universes that forever expand in a sequence of “Big Bangs” or “Big Crunches”?
Christmas comet surprises astronaut
A brilliant new “star of wonder” is wowing people after Comet Lovejoy has appeared in the east right before Christmas.
NASA’s Kepler probe finds two Earth-size planets
NASA’s Kepler space probe has discovered the most Earth-size planets yet detected orbiting another star.
