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The new image produced by Herschel and XMM-Newton

Pillars of Creation seen in new light

The European Space Agency has looked again at Hubble’s Pillars of Creation and turned up the wow factor with a new image.

The star cluster M67. Credit: University of Massachusetts/CalTech/NASA

Star cluster ruled out as Sun’s birthplace

New detective work has ruled out former favourite M67 as the star cluster which originally hatched our Sun.

An artistic perception of a black hole Credit NASA

Black hole is spitting ‘super-bullets’

Astronomers have spotted a black hole spitting out super-fast ‘bullets’ from the disk of material torn from a neighbouring star.

The Milky Way above the dome of the Danish 1.54-metre telescope at La Silla

Galaxy is swarming with alien planets

Planets outnumber stars in the Milky Way, a new cosmic survey by astronomers concludes.

Impression of cosmic rays from one source bombarding Earth

Do dead stars play cosmic pinball?

A desert-based project could be close to solving the century-old mystery of where cosmic rays come from.

A photo of Titan from the Cassini probe

Saturn debate is a clash of the Titans

Two leading planetary scientists have conducted a gentle but very public spat on Twitter over Saturn’s largest moon Titan.

Rocky moons orbit a gas giant

Now let’s discover those alien moons!

With well over 700 planets so far discovered around other stars, astronomers are now looking to a fresh challenge – finding their moons.

The heart of the Omega Nebula (ESO)

Probing the heart of a stellar nursery

A striking image from the European Southern Observatory brings out the beauty of the Omega Nebula, a cosmic cloud where new stars are being born.

An impression magnifies the asteroid transit. (Credit: Alfons Gabel IOTA/ES)

Asteroid is blip on face of Betelgeuse

An asteroid passed in front of brilliant star Betelgeuse yesterday – but there is little chance you would have noticed it.

An artist's impression of a multiverse

Challenging mysteries of the Universe

Could our Universe co-exist with other universes that forever expand in a sequence of “Big Bangs” or “Big Crunches”?

From the VLT video

Christmas comet surprises astronaut

A brilliant new “star of wonder” is wowing people after Comet Lovejoy has appeared in the east right before Christmas.

An artist's impression of the planet

NASA’s Kepler probe finds two Earth-size planets

NASA’s Kepler space probe has discovered the most Earth-size planets yet detected orbiting another star.

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