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Cygnus X
Cygnus X hosts many young stellar groupings. The combined outflows and ultraviolet radiation from the region’s numerous massive stars have heated and pushed gas away from the clusters, producing...
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Diamond planet orbits a pulsar
Orbiting a pulsar in the Milky Way’s Serpens, or Snake, constellation, may be the most beautiful planet you’ll ever lay eyes on. It is certainly the most valuable. This rock is about five times the...
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Gamma-ray bubbles at the galactic centre
This artist’s conception shows an edge-on view of the Milky Way galaxy. Newly discovered gamma-ray jets (pink) extend for 27 000 light-years above and below the galactic plane, and are tilted at an...
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Kepler-16b: where the Sun sets twice
Nasa’s Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is the most “Tatooine-like” planet yet found in our galaxy and is...
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Kepler-22b: closer to finding an Earth
This artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. It is the first planet that Nasa’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit...
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Diamond planet 55 Cancri e may not be so precious after all
A “super-Earth” planet 40 light years from our solar system, believed to be the first-ever discovered planet to consist largely of diamond, may not be quite as precious, according to new research led...
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