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How to iron out gravity's creases in our map of the universe

Our best map of the big bang’s afterglow is warped. A clean-up technique using light from distant galaxies could clear up some long-standing mysteries

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Hypothetical view of an exoplanet with two suns

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Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems

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Aerial view of the 500-metre-wide telescope dish

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Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

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Gas giant exoplanet in front of star

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Puffed-up exoplanets inflate with heat from their stars alone

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Artist's depiction of a pulsar approaching a disc of rubble

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Mystery radio bursts may be pulsars bumping into asteroids

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World's largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet

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World's largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet

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A black hole swallowing a star

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Reality guide: Six problems physics can't explain

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A simulation of the structure of the galaxy

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Reality guide: The essential laws of cosmology

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Ripples

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Reality guide: The essential laws of quantum physics

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A stream of information flowing down a screen

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Reality guide: Six radical ideas to change physics

Is all the universe vibrating strings? Or is information the most essential thing? All is up for grabs as we seek solutions for a fuller understanding of reality

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Gaia's new star map will also reveal asteroids and dark matter

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Gaia’s map of 1 billion stars is the clearest view of our galaxy

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Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy’s heart

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Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon’s thin soil

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