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Exploding stars could be lit by hearts of dark matter
If supernovae were triggered by companion stars, then why are most of them missing in action? A new theory suggests dark matter lights the fuse instead
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Could cosmic megastructures be intruders from another world?
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How redshift colours our view of the history of the universe
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Why we can’t work out where everything is in the universe
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General relativity at 100: Einstein’s witness in the sky
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The Large Magellanic Cloud, if van Gogh had painted it
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Rosettawatch: Onion layers prove 67P is a slow-mo comet mash-up
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Multiverses-in-a-box let us simulate the cosmos before we see it
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Earth’s composition might be unusual for a planet with life
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Black holes may be brick walls that bounce information back out
It's another shot in the black hole wars 鈥� a Nobel laureate has a counterpoint to Stephen Hawking's new solution to the black hole information paradox
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Spider galaxies spotted eating gas caught in the cosmic web
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Spider galaxies spotted eating gas caught in the cosmic web
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What came before the big bang?
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Is the universe infinite or just very big?
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