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CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star’s history of violence
A strange star called Eta Carinae erupted like a supernova in 1843, yet lived to tell the tale. New observations reveal two earlier outbursts
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Proxima b鈥檚 star could be blasting away the planet鈥檚 atmosphere
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Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars
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Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years
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Mating stars hide their modesty behind a thick veil of dust
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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars
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Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way
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Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end
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Cosmological conceits blossom under Finland’s midnight sun
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Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants
A newborn star's fiery temper tantrum pushed its "snow line" far enough out that astronomers could spot it
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Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life
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Milky Way obscured by light pollution for a third of the world
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Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves
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Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets
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