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Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers clues about a group of stellar objects that are hard to observe directly

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G0T7G0 Milky Way streaks across the sky at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire with the iconic Church Rock out to sea. Also pictured is Saturn

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How to tell a planet from a star – and one planet from another

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NASA set to launch SPHEREx space telescope to scan entire sky

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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When did the first galaxies form? Earlier than we thought possible

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When did the first galaxies form? Earlier than we thought possible

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Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found

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How meteorites are rewriting the history of the solar system

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Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe

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Weird icy balls in space could be a totally new kind of star

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Astronomers baffled by bizarre 'zombie star' that shouldn't exist

A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind when stellar objects die

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A supermassive black hole is sending out a mysterious pulsing beat

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Exploding interstellar space rocks could explain mystery radio flashes

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We've taken a photo of a star in another galaxy for the first time

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How I learned to love looking at the moon – and you can too

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