Physics
Hubble telescope catches stunning picture of the Bubble Nebula
NASA’s largest space observatory has taken a striking picture of a giant cosmic bubble to celebrate being in orbit for 26 years
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Dusty doughnut around massive black hole spied for first time
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Never-before-seen galaxy spotted orbiting the Milky Way
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Our galaxy’s impossible collision could break gravity
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Billion-light-year galactic wall may be largest object in cosmos
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Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death
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Ageing Milky Way stopped making stars before it ran out of gas
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Binary stars burned off cosmic fog and made universe transparent
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Long-lost stellar siblings probe the Milky Way’s violent history
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Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space
Plotting a course through outer space is tricky, but stellar corpses called pulsars are pointing the way to a new form of celestial navigation
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Ancient quasars in distant galaxies caught switching on suddenly
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Little galaxy’s own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away
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Galactic smash-ups turn on the lights around black holes
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Epic cosmic radio burst finally seen in real time
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