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Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery

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Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery

A planet-forming disc of dust and gas is orbiting a pair of binary stars at an odd angle, and a second set of binary stars circle the whole system to keep it in line

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Large Magellanic Cloud

Space

A cosmic collision may be coming for our galaxy sooner than we thought

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Geraint Lewis: What is the fate of our universe?

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Geraint Lewis: What is the fate of our universe?

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Chamkaur Ghag: The hunt for dark matter

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Chamkaur Ghag: The hunt for dark matter

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Emma Chapman: The first stars in the universe

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Emma Chapman: The first stars in the universe

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An explosion in space

Physics

The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing

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multiverse

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How to think about... The multiverse

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The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed

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The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed

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Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

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Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

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Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves

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Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves

Magnetic waves vibrating through an interstellar cloud called Musca reveal its 3D shape. We though it was long and thin, but it’s actually flat like a pancake

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Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books

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Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores Bach's cosmic music

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Hawking's global warnings divided opinion but the world listened

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Physics

Why the big bang was not the beginning

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