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inventory of the universe

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Your essential guide to the many breathtaking wonders of the universe

An abridged inventory of everything there is in the universe – from rogue planets and exomoons to supernovae, supermassive black holes and the cosmic web.

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The hunt for black holes older than the universe itself

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The hunt for black holes older than the universe itself

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Neil Turok mirror universe

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Neil Turok on the case for a parallel universe going backwards in time

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The cosmos doesn't work to my research schedule – but that's OK

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.

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Two smart books probe multiverses, dark matter – and sexual politics

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Red galaxy

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Red smudge seen by JWST could unlock chemistry of the early universe

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James Webb Space Telescope images reveal dazzling view of the universe

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James Webb Space Telescope images reveal dazzling view of the universe

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Will time ever end? The answer lies in the death throes of the cosmos

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Will time ever end? The answer lies in the death throes of the cosmos

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Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?

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Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?

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Star trails over the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ.??

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Largest 3D map of the universe contains 8 million galaxies

Astrophysicists hope a map created by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will help answer questions about the expansion of the universe

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How you can get involved with the hunt for gravitational waves

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How old is the universe?

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Everything we know about the universe – and a few things we don't

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Humans

You are stardust: The long view of when your existence really began

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