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A New Star In The Northern Crown
Look to the sky in the coming months and there could be what appears to be a bright new star. In reality, this is T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), a star that's usually dim but which jumps dramatically in brightness every 80 years to become visible to the
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Dark Stars Could Leave Scars Across The Cosmos
The scars left behind by exploding ‘dark stars’ could allow astronomers to examine the invisible Universe, a new study has found. Dark matter is the invisible substance believed to suffuse the entire Universe – though as we can only detect it through
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Unearthing Galaxies In The Archives
Over the last year or so, images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a population of ‘little red dots’ – faint objects that may well be the cores of galaxies, shining brightly thanks to what seem to be actively growing black holes at th

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