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The dwarf that breaks the rules
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Carbon-14 makes its stellar debut
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Life and times of a star
Inside Science
The star that came in from the cold
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Galaxy hunters close to the edge
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The bar at the centre of the Galaxy
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The unacceptably young face of the Universe
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Vermin of the skies: Astronomers used to curse asteroids for obscuring their view of the heavens. Now, as Ken Croswell discovers, scientists think they may hold the clues to the origin of the Solar System
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Science: Is dark matter shadowed by dust?
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Science: One giant leap for cosmology ..
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Science: The faint glow of dark matter
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Science: Slow leak from interior of red planet
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