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A black hole devouring a giant star gives clues to a cosmic mystery

In the centre of a distant galaxy, a supermassive black hole has swallowed up a star 9 times the sun’s mass in the biggest and brightest such cosmic meal we’ve ever seen

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HAHPK2 2016's Perseid meteor shower Above Spray Lake, Spray Valley Provincial Park - Kananaskis Country

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Get ready to watch the dazzling Perseid meteor shower in August

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This photograph shows the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) at the Arizona Radio Observatory, at an altitude of 3100 metres on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA. https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/eso1229d/?lang

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The physicist who wants to build a telescope bigger than Earth

Features

The protective bubble around the sun (yellow dot) and Earth (blue dot)

Space

Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3 million years ago

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Space

'Unluckiest star' may be trapped in deadly dance with a black hole

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Messier 78

Space

Amazing new images of galaxies and nebulae caught by Euclid telescope

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path of fast radio burst FRB 181112

Space

Mysterious space signals may come from a dead star with a planet

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View Los Angeles financial district skyline at night

Environment

The shift to LED lighting is stopping us from seeing our night skies

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Falling stars during the April Lyrids 2020 (April 23rd). Composing of falling stars during a period of 2 hours and one 15 sec. exposure for the stars.; Shutterstock ID 1727321440; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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How to see the Lyrid meteor shower and when is the peak?

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Eclipse chasers: Why NASA jets will pursue solar totality

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Eclipse chasers: Why NASA jets will pursue solar totality

During the total solar eclipse on 8 April, two of NASA's WB-57 jet planes, equipped with special instruments, will chase totality and give new insight into the sun's corona

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I might be an astrophysicist, but I'm still learning about stargazing

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Space

Planet caught in a gravitational 'tidal storm' is so hot that it glows

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The ambitious plans to study the sun during April's solar eclipse

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Is the truth out there? Yes, but it doesn't involve aliens

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