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Astronomers get first glimpse of `glue` of universe

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 12:27

Astronomers have found a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments believed to connect galaxies in a cosmic web.

Fast radio bursts` may be coming from nearby stars

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 11:30

Researchers have claimed that "fast radio bursts", lasting for only a thousandth of a second, may be coming from within our own galaxy, and not from galaxies billions of light-years away as previously believed.

Rogue stars ejected from Milky Way found in intergalactic space

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 12:39

Researchers have identified a group of more than 675 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way that they argue are hypervelocity stars that have been ejected from the galactic core.