The very first particles of light came from somewhere. We find out where
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Astronomy
Heroes of Space: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
On this day in 1868 an unsung astronomer, who helped to discover our place in the universe, was born
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What shape is space?
There’s plenty of it, so what shape do we think the universe is?
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What makes hypervelocity stars move so fast?
We take a look at what causes these stars to speed across the universe
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Stephen Hawking: “I was playing poker with Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Commander Data on the Starship Enterprise!”
Back in 2014, we caught up with the great scientist to get his thoughts on the universe, his cameo in Star Trek: The Next Generation and why we could be living in a hologram
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Early galaxies found to rotate like whirlpools
The gas within the galactic structures, which were formed less then a billion years after the Big Bang, have been discovered to have a ‘swirling’ behaviour
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Alien megastructure confirmed as unlikely cause of star’s weird behaviour
A team of more than 200 researchers is one step closer to solving the mystery behind Tabby’s Star
Solar System
It’s Christmas on Mars! But does it snow on the Red Planet?
Could the fourth rock from the Sun have a white Christmas?
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Astronomers discover multiple supermassive black hole pairings
Fewer than ten of these double gigantic high-gravity objects were known previously
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Record-breaking, low-oxygen galaxy provides snapshot into early universe
Dwarf galaxy J0811+4730 may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the young cosmos
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Dark matter likely to be cold rather than ‘fuzzy’, suggests new study
An international team of cosmologists have used data from the intergalactic medium – the vast, largely empty space between galaxies – to narrow down what dark matter could be
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FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 67
We reveal what really happened the day we landed on the Moon in the latest issue – available now from all good supermarkets and newsagents
Space Exploration
Goodbye, LISA Pathfinder: ESA deactivates gravitational wave mission
The spacecraft has been switched off as planned on the evening of 18 July, ending its successful mission which surpassed all expectations
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Astronomers discover largest mega-structure of galaxies in the universe
A previously unknown, extremely large supercluster located in the direction of the constellation Pisces, has been identified
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Thanks to the impressive photography skills of astrophotographer Chris Baker, these glorious displays are available for a limited amount of time
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Astronomers have made the largest map of the universe yet
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the first map of the large-scale structure of the universe has been created – based entirely on the positions of quasars
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Astronomers suspect dark matter is fuzzy
The study, which involves 13 galaxy clusters, explores the possibility that mysterious substance may be more ‘fuzzy’ than ‘cold’
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FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 62
Find out what’s beyond the edge of the universe in the latest issue of All About Space, available from all good supermarkets and newsagents
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NASA needs your help to find Solar System’s Planet 9
Elusive planets may be lurking around the edges of our solar neighbourhood, and astronomers from NASA and UC Berkeley want the public’s help to hunt them down
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Baby star’s strange geometry assists in solving evolution puzzle
New clues to understanding how dust can find its way to the surface of a forming star have been uncovered