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A 'Great Wave' is rippling through our galaxy, pushing thousands of stars out of placeA giant 'wave' is rippling through the Milky Way, pushing thousands of stars across the galaxy, and scientists don't know what triggered it.
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Stars live longer, stranger lives after nearly being swallowed by a black holeA new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their violent encounters with the Milky Way's black hole.
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See the moon, Venus and Regulus in a rare triple conjunction tomorrowWatch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.
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James Webb telescope finds a warped 'Butterfly Star' shedding its chrysalis — Space photo of the weekThe James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.
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Scientists may finally know why the first stars in the universe left no traceThe very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't find evidence of them today.
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Scientists just recreated the universe's first ever molecules — and the results challenge our understanding of the early cosmosIn a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early star formation.
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NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the weekScientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.
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Astronomers witness a newborn planet emerging from the dust around a sun-like star: Space photo of the weekThe Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.
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Scientists detect gargantuan 'pimple' that has plagued a star for at least 7 yearsA transiting exoplanet has revealed a huge "spot" near the pole of its tiny M-dwarf parent star. The spot has been around at least 7 years and occupies 7% of the sun's surface.
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