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Pluto looms large, a day before New Horizons's closest approach

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Pluto looms large, a day before New Horizons's closest approach

The former planet is less than a day from its close-up, and it is already showing ice caps, streams of nitrogen and a bigger girth than expected

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Hoped-for dark matter flash might instead be the corpses of stars

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Hoped-for dark matter flash might instead be the corpses of stars

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Misbehaving pulsar's sudden slow-down may teach us how they tick

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Misbehaving pulsar's sudden slow-down may teach us how they tick

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Galaxy's supermassive black hole is a cool neighbourhood for ice

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Galaxy's supermassive black hole is a cool neighbourhood for ice

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Rainbow X-ray echoes pinpoint faraway neutron star

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Rainbow X-ray echoes pinpoint faraway neutron star

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Construction resumes on Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope

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Construction resumes on Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope

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Don't fear apocalyptic asteroids: you're safer than you think

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Don't fear apocalyptic asteroids: you're safer than you think

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Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet

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Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet

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Supernova prized by astronomers begins to fade from view

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Supernova prized by astronomers begins to fade from view

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Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers' thirst

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Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers' thirst

Moonshine might need a new definition on the moon: sunshine falling on to frosty lunar rocks could distil water for future colonists

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Pluto's strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz

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Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down

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Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down

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#RosettaWatch: 67P formed when two baby comets got together

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