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Jupiter鈥檚 deepest mysteries were hidden in shadow. Now we can see them

NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its ghostly rings to the dark sides of its moons. And she does it all with an instrument that wasn't even designed for photography

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We鈥檝e found the best example yet of an enormous wandering black hole

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Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula

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The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now

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We may have finally solved cosmology’s chicken-or-the-egg problem

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A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

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Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system’s violent history

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A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now

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How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe

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Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

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Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere

A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodies in the outer solar system

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Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars

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We鈥檝e caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time

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Mysterious comet disintegration caught by telescope after lucky break

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Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an ‘impossible’ particle detector

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