The spacecraft has been switched off as planned on the evening of 18 July, ending its successful mission which surpassed all expectations
Space Exploration
Space Exploration
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Space telescope maps star’s ‘death spiral’ into a black hole
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the Sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy
Astronomy
Watch LIVE: The southern ‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse
On 26 February, an annular solar eclipse will rise and set over a large area of the Southern Hemisphere – don’t miss it!
News
Space telescope ‘hears’ stellar heartbeat from a planetary companion
“Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have discovered the first example of a planet that seems to be causing a heartbeat-like behaviour in its host star”
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Gamma rays of ‘hidden’ solar flares spotted for the first time
The new view provides solar scientists with a unique tool for exploring how charged particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light
News
Stars in Milky Way’s halo found to travel in groups
The finding was made after recent analysis of data for millions of stars from the Gaia space mission
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Garnet planets could be the most habitable worlds in the universe
Astronomers and geoscientists have joined forces using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to find out what makes a rocky planet Earth-like
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Most common ‘outer planets’ probably like Neptune
The study provides the first indication of the types of planets waiting to be found far from a host star
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Astronomers figure out why part of the Sun moves more slowly than its interior
A long-standing solar mystery could have been solved by an international team of scientists
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Spinning black hole caught gulping down star
The mystery extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy has been solved
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NASA spacecraft harvest a batch of ‘pumpkin stars’
Rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the Sun have been discovered
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Astronomers provide more evidence for a ninth planet in the Solar System
The search for an unseen world far, far beyond Neptune’s orbit has become clearer
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Most luminous, energetic pair of stars found outside Milky Way
The dual-star system produces a cyclic flood of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light
News
Origins of comet’s ‘summer fireworks’ traced by Rosetta
In the three months centred around 67P’s closest approach to the Sun, the spacecraft’s cameras captured 34 outbursts
Solar System
Watch a double eclipse through the camera of a NASA spacecraft
Earth completely eclipsed the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s perspective just as the Moon began its journey across the face of our star
News
Star cluster found to host hundreds of black holes
Astronomers have shone light on a globular cluster of stars that could host several hundred black holes, a phenomenon that until recently was thought impossible
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Three giant planets discovered in orbit around Sun’s twins
The findings may help explain the influence that giant planets like Jupiter have over a Solar System’s architecture
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Low-budget balloon mission to image solar soundwaves
A miniature solar observatory will be flight tested on a six-hour high-altitude balloon mission scheduled for the end of August
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Astronomers probe star that’s both very old and very young
For years, we’ve puzzled over a massive age-defying star lodged deep in the Milky Way
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Super-Earth found in habitable zone of nearest star
The new world, around Proxima Centauri, has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface