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    Two Herbig-Haro objects can be seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, catalogued as HH46 and HH47. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini
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    Eye On The Sky Hubble spots Herbig Haro stellar shockwaves

    With four other Plough stars, Merak is a member of the Ursa Major Moving Group, as shown by the blue arrows. Credit: Pete Lawrence
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    Observing guide Spot star Merak at the bottom of the Plough

    The Plough / Ursa Major. Credit: Christophe Lehenaff / Getty Images
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    Mizar and Alcor: the Plough’s famous double star

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    An artist's impression of Thuban, an eclipsing binary star. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA)
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    6-star system discovered in which every star undergoes an eclipse

    Artist's impression of hypervelocity star HE 0437-5439, which has been booted out of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
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    The mystery of the Milky Way’s runaway stars

    The three wise men. Credit: Mlenny / Getty Images
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    Star of Bethlehem: did it really exist?

    A DECam image showing the bulge of the Milky Way: part of a survey of 250 million stars. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA. Acknowledgment: Image processing: W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), and M. Rich (UCLA), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin.
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    Milky Way bulge imaged in survey of 250 million stars

    An artist’s impression shows how the Universe’s first, massive, blue stars are embedded in gaseous filaments. Credit: N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation
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    How did the first stars affect the evolution of the Universe?

    Artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disc. Our Solar System may have looked like this in its infancy. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
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    What is stardust?

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    A stream of charged particles emanating from red giant star R Aquilae. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Decin et al.
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    Eye On The Sky Stellar winds from red giant star produce cosmic floral pattern

    What happens when a planet orbits two stars at once? Credit: Rastan/istock/getty images
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    What happens when exoplanets orbit two stars at once?

    Free-floating Gaseous Globules. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai
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    Eye On The Sky Star-forming globules seen in cosmic bubble of hot ionised gas

    M16. Credit: Gerald Rhemann.
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    Star clusters: an astronomer’s guide

    The misaligned planet-forming discs around triple star system GW Orionis. Credit: ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al., ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
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    Eye On The Sky Mis-aligned rings detected in disc around triple-star system

    Albireo in Cygnus, imaged by Alexander Wilson.
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    Double stars and binary stars: a guide

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