Space
The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on
On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe
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The Sun review 鈥� a shiny blockbuster for London鈥檚 Science Museum
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We’ve spotted the shock wave from an invisible explosion in space
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10 mysteries of the universe: How will it all end?
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10 mysteries of the universe: What makes monster stars?
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We鈥檝e found a pulsar spinning so slowly that it shouldn鈥檛 exist
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Inside the stargazer’s paradise where all outside lights are banned
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Neutron stars bend light so much we see their front and back at once
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Explosive facelift left star looking much younger than its true age
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The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years
The sun鈥檚 size changes throughout its 11-year cycle of magnetic activity, and measuring that growth may help us figure out what鈥檚 going on inside
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Why weird star systems are where we’ll find alien life
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Our sun grew fat when a sausage collided with the Milky Way
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Clouds of spinning diamonds around stars solve an old mystery
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Ultrahot planets bust up molecules then rebuild them into clouds
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