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At 200000 light years across, NGC 1365 is one of the largest known galaxies

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Spiralling galaxy arms spread oxygen around for future planets

The spiral arms of a galaxy called NGC 1365 contain 60 per cent more oxygen than the space between, the most extreme variation seen in a galaxy like this

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Hidden pockets of turbulent gas fuel stars in far-off galaxies

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Hidden pockets of turbulent gas fuel stars in far-off galaxies

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A binary start system with a white dwarf pulling material off its partner star

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Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova

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jellyfish galaxies

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Jellyfish galaxies may feed black holes with their long tendrils

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

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Milky Way visible in the sky above some mountains

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Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe

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Astronomer looking through telescope

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Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?

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Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

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Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

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Galaxy NGC 4258 with its extra tentacles protruding from its middle

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The many-tentacled galaxy that could drive a physics revolution

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lots of galaxies

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Cosmological ruler could help us get the measure of dark energy

Measuring how the distance between galaxies changes is key to working out how dark energy drives the universe’s accelerating expansion – now a new ruler may help

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Dark matter took its time to wrap around early galaxies

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Rules of attraction: Why it's time to rethink how gravity works

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Rare mid-weight black hole found at heart of bright star cluster

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Intergalactic collision birthed a sparkling ring of young stars

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