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Cosmic murder created Saturn’s rings
The death throes of a nascent moon of Saturn may have created the gas giant’s rings.
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Exploding star recorded in Aboriginal Dreamtime
Aboriginal Australians recorded an eruption of a bright star 150 years ago and wove it into their Dreamtime stories.
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Mini black holes reveal their true power
An Australian telescope is helping rewrite the physics of black holes by studying a miniature one.
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Astronomers study the sound of stars
Listen in on the sound of ‘starquakes’ – vibrations in stars that are telling us about their turbulent interiors.
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Giant asteroid impact found in Aussie outback
Evidence of what may be Australia’s second largest impact crater has turned up on the Queensland-SA border.
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‘Extinct’ galaxy stuns astronomers
A galaxy thought only to exist at the beginning of the Universe has been discovered by Australian scientists.
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Pluto gets 14 new neighbours
By searching through old photos, astronomers have discovered 14 new space objects orbiting near Pluto.
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Two asteroids to narrowly miss Earth
Two asteroids on different orbits will zoom close to Earth, within hours of each other.
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“Ghost” nebula puzzles astronomers
Experts are perplexed as to what could be lighting up the ‘boomerang’ in this spectacular nebula.
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New planet is smallest known alien world
Scientists have found a Sun-like star with seven planets, one of which is the smallest known outside our Solar System.