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How to spot green comet Nishimura in the skies this week

Comet Nishimura, which was discovered just a month ago, is about to make its closest approach to the sun, giving people in the northern hemisphere a great chance of a sighting

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Artists impression of a black hole destroying a nearby star

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Never-before-seen space explosion is incredibly bright but fades fast

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Massive crater found on distant world far beyond Neptune

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An artist impression of HD 45166, an unusually magnetic star

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Astronomers have found a strange new type of extremely magnetic star

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What are the weirdest stars in the universe?

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How to spot the 2023 Perseid meteor shower as it peaks this weekend

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Release Date September 12, 2019 10:00AM (EDT) Caption Anyone who has ever peered at Saturn through a small telescope is immediately enticed by its elegant rings, which make the far-flung planet one of the most exotic-looking, opulent worlds in the solar system. The latest view of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system?which looks like a phonograph record with grooves that represent detailed structure within the rings?and atmospheric details that once could only be captured by spacecraft visiting the distant world. One such intriguing feature is the long-lasting hexagon-shaped structure circling the planet's north pole. It is a mysterious six-sided pattern caused by a high-speed jet stream. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft first discovered the

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How to spot Saturn's rings through a telescope

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A lime green circle with an oblong purple ring around it in space

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The Ring Nebula glows green in a stunning new JWST image

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An image from Euclid in infrared light taken to check that the instrument works as expected

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Euclid space telescope sends back amazing first images of the cosmos

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Young star V960 Mon with its long spiral arms

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Stunning photo of a young star hints how Jupiter-like planets form

This mesmerising image of star V960 Mon spitting out gas jets to create arms larger than our entire solar system shows how massive planets may come together via gravitational instability

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Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side

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Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

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Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

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JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image

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