The Universe looks very different today compared to how it looked 12 billion years ago. Galaxies once ‘hotspots’ where billions of stars … More
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The beautiful way stars form out of clumps of gas is visualised for the first time
It may look like an abstract shape from a fuzzy space photograph, but a graph published today reveals a fresh insight into … More
The Milky Way’s fastest stars could have escaped from nearby galaxies
At the very edge of our galaxy, some stars are moving fast enough that they have the energy needed to escape … More
Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s how
Of all the stars in the sky, you might assume the closest to the sun would be the easiest to … More
Astronomers spot two stars colliding, creating stellar ‘fireworks’ 1,500 light years away
The debris left behind after stars were born in dramatic explosions has been caught on camera. Using the Atacama Large … More
Ancient stardust sheds light on the birth and explosive deaths of the Universe’s very first stars
Astronomers have peered back more than 13 billion light years to find a huge mass of glowing stars – the … More
