This analysis has also revealed that the exoplanet LHS 3844b also does not have an atmosphere
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New image release: Hubble’s weird perspective of a spiral galaxy
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a structure like our Milky Way
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Follow the glow to find life in the cosmos
Stellar flares could reveal the fluorescent glow of a planet’s biosphere, a key component for life to develop
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Astronomers use neutron star’s ‘glitch’ to reveal its secrets
These ‘glitches’ provide a rare opportunity to understand the three components of a neutron star
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Astronomers discover an ancient black hole hidden behind a mask of gas
This important evidence could prove the existence of a black hole just 850 million years after the Big Bang
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Very Large Telescope releases new view of ‘Cosmic Seagull’
The remarkable detail reveals the individual astronomical objects that make up the celestial bird, as well as the finer features within them
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What came first, dark matter or the Big Bang?
Not much is known about dark matter, but scientists have long-thought that it was the remnant of the birth of the universe
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Ancient white dwarf explosions live on in the stellar memory
The chemical composition of certain stars gives clues about their predecessors, stars that have long since exploded and faded
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Are brown dwarfs more like stars or planets?
Planets, stars or something entirely different? We take a look to see what brown dwarfs are
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Astronomers spot a ‘football-shaped’ exoplanet kicking out heavy metals
The hot-Jupiter WASP-121b has metals such as iron and magnesium flee the host planet due to its weak gravity
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‘Snowball’ planets might be better abodes for life than we thought
Frozen worlds could still have patches of habitable land
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Astronomers map more of Milky Way’s puzzling cosmic void
The existence of the Local Void has been widely accepted, but it remained poorly studied because it lies behind the centre of our galaxy and is therefore heavily obscured from our view
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The Hubble constant has changed, once again
This new measurement is based upon measuring the distance to red giant stars in different galaxies
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Astronomers explore the hypothetical world of exomoon expulsion
Moons ejected from orbits around gas giant exoplanets could explain several astronomical mysteries, an international team of astronomers suggests
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Hubble spots a strange thin disc at the core of a nearby galaxy
The disc orbits a black hole 250 times the mass of our Sun and it speeds material up to unimaginable speeds
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Astronomers watch on as two black hole behemoths get ready for a collision
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background ‘hum’ of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be made
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Cold hydrogen could have stopped Milky Way’s star formation
For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy
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Solved! How the universe’s biggest stars become massive
Astronomers have obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disc feeding the growth of a massive baby star
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Astronomers uncover new way to measure space’s expansion
Using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes, we may now have resolved an outstanding question about the cosmos
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What would happen if a planet crashed into a neutron star?
We take a look at the answer to this intriguing question