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We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first theorised more than 30 years ago

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We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars

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Shutterstock Asset ID: 2498498799 Supernova explosion in the center of the galaxy

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Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind

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What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer

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Our solar system is extremely weird: Best ideas of the century

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Our solar system is extremely weird: Best ideas of the century

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This is a false-color composite image of the Fomalhaut System taken with the Hubble telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument in 2010 and 2012. The black circle at the center of the image blocks out the light from the bright star, allowing reflected light from the belt and planet to be photographed.

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Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solving a cosmic mystery

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artist's concept of what exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b may look like

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Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation

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SNR 0519, the remnant of a supernova that exploded about 600 years ago

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Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star

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Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe

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Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could solve a cosmic mystery about the origins of extremely large black holes

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Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no obvious fuel

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Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away

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Brightest black hole flare ever caused by huge star being ripped apart

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We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars

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