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In 5 billion years the Sun will collapse. A new discovery suggest some planets may still survive afterwards.
The black hole is part of a binary star system within our Milky Way galaxy. It orbits a colossal supergiant companion star.
Has the Sun entered a stage of old age?
The ‘oldest known nova’ (a star explosion) in the sky was actually not a nova, astronomers show.
Understanding how the billions of stars in our galaxy formed and evolved is the subject of a huge galactic archaeology project.
They’re are the overachievers of the universe: incredibly dense but very small when compared to others stars. So how much do we know about the extreme behaviour of neutron stars?
The best observations yet of a mysterious gas cloud that was heading for the black hole at the hear of our Milky Way reveal it may have more stellar origins.
Just how big are the stars? Earth feels quite big, what with it taking an entire day to fly between Sydney and London, and clearly the sun and moon are quite large in the sky. But with virtually everything…
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