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Baby stars grow big and strong by eating their own burst bubbles

Space

Baby stars grow big and strong by eating their own burst bubbles

A new simulation suggests the most massive stars in the universe got so big by taking advantage of the same physics that makes mushroom clouds

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Largest-ever map of 1.2 million galaxies measures dark energy

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Largest-ever map of 1.2 million galaxies measures dark energy

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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

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tim peake smiling, and reclining in microgravity presumably on the ISS

Space

Tim Peake: Robots won’t replace me for 100 years

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Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon

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Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon

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Two kaleidoscopic columns made up of leaves and fronds

Technology

Missing the natural world? Just add multimedia

Culture

NASA’s Juno probe enters near-perfect orbit around Jupiter

NASA’s Juno probe enters near-perfect orbit around Jupiter

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NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe

Space

NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe

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Rocket booster fires at bottom of valley

Space

Up close with the awesome power of NASA's biggest ever rocket

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Fiery exoplanet may see a trillion lightning flashes in an hour

Space

Fiery exoplanet may see a trillion lightning flashes in an hour

Volcanic eruptions could drive furious lightning storms on Kepler-10b, a volcanic exoplanet not much larger than Earth

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NASA's Juno spacecraft gears up for a whirlwind tour of Jupiter

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Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars

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Space

Watch a Cygnus spacecraft burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere

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Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

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