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The ALMA telescope gives astronomers their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation and helps resolve a mystery about how young planets and their infant star can both grow at the same time. 
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zm833 Professor Brian Cox explains how the ingredients of life are created in the heart of a dying star.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each.
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The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them.
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Every star in the Milky Way is host to at least one planet, say astronomers reporting at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
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September 15, 2015 9:14 AM
Our solar system is not the only one with planets!
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The heavy heart of a neutron star holds matter on the edge of oblivion. A proposed NASA mission will discover what's inside.
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With all the wonderful observation imagery compiled by NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, the stars can get left behind. Alex Rivest compiled the imagery against a London PM music soundtrack.
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Some people reach for the stars, but the stars themselves seem to be reaching for the planets. Although Earth and its planetary neighbors were born with the sun, a new study says billions of stars in our galaxy likely grabbed planets from the depths of space. The finding may explain the puzzling presence of worlds located far from their suns and even suggests that our solar system could harbor a planet that lurks unseen well beyond Pluto.
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The centers of most --if not all-- galaxies host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. They had been thought to hinder the birth of...
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Bubbles full of stars are now shedding light on how our sun and its siblings might have formed, scientists find.
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Shortly after the "Dark Ages" of the Cosmos the first stars popped into existence -- but they weren't the galactic Goliaths we thought they were.
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