Space
Spot six planets in the sky this week: Mercury, Mars, Uranus and more
Late October is a great time to spot planets, says Abigail Beall, and with a few tips you can find almost all those in the solar system
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How to use the Orion constellation to find Sirius the dog star
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How to measure light pollution where you live by counting stars
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How to find the North Star and Southern Cross
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Stars that eat planets can start spinning so fast they rip apart
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A stargazer’s guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun
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Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds
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Physics
How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets
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We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space
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Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape
The most detailed ever map of the Milky Way shows that our galaxy is not flat. It turns out the disc is warped into an S-shape
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Star hurtling around a giant black hole proves Einstein right – again
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Two incredibly fast-orbiting stars seem to be the wrong temperature
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The Milky Way devoured another galaxy and we’ve spotted the remains
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Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter
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