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This is something we’ve never seen in stars that are analogs of stars in the early universe,' an astronomer said.

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American space agency NASA launched the Pandora telescope that will use a new approach to look at distant exoplanets in ...

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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted something never seen before: a giant cloud of gas and dark ...