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Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole

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Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole

At the centre of our galaxy, six strange clouds that look like dust and gas orbit a black hole so closely that if they were really just clouds they should have been sucked in by now

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SpaceX Starlink satellites could be ‘existential threat’ to astronomy

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SpaceX Starlink satellites could be ‘existential threat’ to astronomy

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Two stars colliding in 2083 will outshine all the others in the sky

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Two stars colliding in 2083 will outshine all the others in the sky

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Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

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Mysterious radio signal from space seems to have suddenly vanished

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Quadrantids meteor shower

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How to watch the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2020

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A spotter's guide to the Milky Way's most badly behaved stars

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A spotter's guide to the Milky Way's most badly behaved stars

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The world’s biggest telescope and the African astronomy revolution

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The world’s biggest telescope and the African astronomy revolution

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Andromeda galaxy

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How to find Andromeda – a spiral galaxy you can see with the naked eye

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Seasonal gift ideas for lovers of terrific science reads and top films

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Northern lights

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See the northern lights or aurora borealis: Follow this easy guide

Winter is the best time to see the amazing phenomenon of the polar lights, when solar particles stream into Earth's atmosphere

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Exploring the wonders of the solar system

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Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet

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See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week

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We’ve found the missing neutron star at the centre of a supernova

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