Space
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Hubble takes the biggest image ever of Andromeda at 1.5 billion pixels
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda gal...
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A collection of Cosmos Snapshots
Each issue the Cosmos Magazine editorial team choose one stunning image to highlight. Take a look...
Arctic-Images/Corbis The Milky WayLight pollution in the world’s cities has cut millions off from the stars...
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If there are aliens out there, how will we communicate?
The SETI Institute, before Christmas, held a workshop to tackle the problem of understanding any message we may recei...
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Supercomputer simulates the magnetic field loops on the Sun
Researchers at NASA and its university partners have come up with a simulation of how magnetic fields may emerge from...
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How we nearly lost comet-lander Philae
New information from the European Space Agency shows how what yesterday we thought was just a hitch, came close to a ...
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Rosetta data shows gas content of comet's coma
As we count down to Wednesday's attempted landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency has ...
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James Webb space telescope survives first test at -233ºC
The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble, has survived a gruelling 116-day test in conditions desi...
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In space no one can hear you scream – or can they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs&feature=emb_title We think of space as a silent place – a vacuum thro...
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Astronomers define our place in the cosmos
The Milky Way is part of a galactic supercluster, which astronomers have named Laniakea, reports ...
As the Milky Way hurtles through space, it doesn’t travel alone. It is part of a galactic supercluster which a team o...
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Shields up ready for Mars shot
A superconductor that deflects cosmic radiation away from interplanetary spacecraft sounds like s...
Anthony Calvert 1. Layers of high density polyethylene protect magnets from debris and micro-meteorites. 2....
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All set for our first comet landing
It may answers questions of the origins of our solar system.
For an event intended to celebrate a scientific milestone, the January gathering inside the European Space Agency’s c...
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Searching for aliens through history
Far from being a product of the UFO craze, the desire to contact intelligent life dates back to A...
Message in a wave: The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope and most...