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An artist’s impression of the Milky Way, with two of its satellite galaxies – the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud – in the bottom left.
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Galactic warming: The ‘car engine-like’ effect heating our Milky Way
A diagram depicting habitable zone boundaries across star type with rocky exoplanets from Bohl et al. (2026). The boundaries of the habitable zone shift based on star colour, since different wavelengths of light will heat a planet's atmosphere differently. 
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The best places to look for alien life: Scientists identify 45 Earth-like worlds to explore for a 'Project Hail Mary'
This image was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on 1 January 2019 during a flyby of Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, known as Arrokoth.
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Why some objects in space look like snowmen
An artist’s impression of the stellar dimming event caused by a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter with massive rings (foreground) forming an opaque “saucer” through which some light from the star ASASSN-24fw (background) shines.
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Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star
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