When did stars form?
Star formation peaked more recently than previously thought
Prizes reward cosmologists
Alan Guth and Andrei Linde share Gruber cosmology prize, while Templeton prize goes to George Ellis
Galaxy breaks distance record
Astronomers probe universe when it was just 3% of its present age
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Revealing the secrets of planetary formation
A newly-discovered stellar disk of dust could help explain how planets form
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Is the universe a dodecahedron?
Cosmologists might have to rethink their most basic ideas about space
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Stars make an early entrance
Evidence of star formation seen in oldest object in the universe
Rashid Sunyaev wins cosmology prize
Pioneering astrophysicist is recognized for work on X-ray astronomy and the cosmic background radiation
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RHIC unveils new results
Brookhaven researchers claim to have come the closest yet to creating a quark-gluon plasma
Supermassive black hole binary might lurk in nearby galaxy
Researchers in Japan claim to have found evidence for a pair of supermassive black holes
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Heavy elements lend weight to early stars
Stars and galaxies may have formed much earlier than previously thought
