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A spotter's guide to the Milky Way's most badly behaved stars

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A spotter's guide to the Milky Way's most badly behaved stars

There are around a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, and most are rather humdrum – but the oddballs are so strange that they challenge our understanding of physics

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The world’s biggest telescope and the African astronomy revolution

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The world’s biggest telescope and the African astronomy revolution

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Andromeda galaxy

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How to find Andromeda – a spiral galaxy you can see with the naked eye

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Northern lights

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See the northern lights or aurora borealis: Follow this easy guide

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Seasonal gift ideas for lovers of terrific science reads and top films

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Sheila Kanani at 51�� Live

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Exploring the wonders of the solar system

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Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet

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Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet

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night sky

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See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week

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We’ve found the missing neutron star at the centre of a supernova

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We’ve found the missing neutron star at the centre of a supernova

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Starlink satellites trail across images from DECam

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SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are interfering with astronomy again

The second batch of Starlink satellites, launched last week by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, are interfering with astronomical observations of the southern sky

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The Leonid meteor shower peaks this week: Here's how to see it

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How to watch Mercury's transit of the sun with just binoculars

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A perfect MeerKAT moment as the sun breaks through above the telescope

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How to spot Taurus, star clusters and a meteor shower in the night sky

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