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Rare star smash may explain mystery outburst
IN BRIEF: 13:47 27 November 2009 | 1 comment
A star that brightened dramatically in 2002 may have been sent into a spin by another star, X-ray observations suggest
New space telescope to hunt for stealth asteroids
UPFRONT: 13:16 26 November 2009 | 14 comments
NASA's WISE infrared telescope will be able to find hundreds of near-Earth objects and maybe even a faint Jupiter-sized object lurking in deep space
Dark galaxy crashing into the Milky Way
IN BRIEF: 11:00 22 November 2009 | 54 comments
A cloud of hydrogen crashing into our galaxy now appears be a galaxy itself, packed with dark matter – many more may be out there