All About Space
Newfound ‘Kraken merger' may have been the biggest collision in Milky Way history
The Milky Way has more than 100 billion stars, but it didn’t come by them all honestly.
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All About Space
Deep sky challenge - Little-known treasures of Taurus
There’s more to the Bull than the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters – just look a little deeper
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All About Space
Moon tour - Schiller
To start off the New Year, spot one of the strangest-shaped craters on the Moon
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All About Space
China's Chang'e 5 lands on the Moon, collects first lunar sample
China has landed on the Moon again, and this time the country plans to bring home some souvenirs. Chang’e 5, China’s first sample-return mission, successfully touched down on 1 December near Mons Rümker, a lunar mountain located in the Ocean of Storms, or Oceanus Procellarum. The probe deployed its solar array and antenna soon after to begin its work.
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All About Space
DARK MATTER - WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
It’s eluded us for decades, but bubbles could be the answer to the universe’s most mysterious substance
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All About Space
DR BERNARD HARRIS JR. - “WE STILL NEED TO HAVE MORE DIVERSITY IN THE ASTRONAUT CORPS”
A veteran astronaut now serving as a flag bearer for STEM education, Dr Bernard Harris Jr. speaks to All About Space about his time as a Space Shuttle astronaut, coloured representation in the current astronaut corps and whether he’d still like to go to the Moon
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All About Space
Celestron Cometron FirstScope 76
Designed with the beginner or casual astronomer in mind, this tabletop telescope is portable, provides good views and doesn’t take up too much space
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All About Space
Arecibo Observatory
Prior to its decommissioning and sudden collapse, this huge dish made many invaluable contributions to astronomy
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All About Space
ALIEN WORLDS IN FARAWAY GALAXIES: EXTRAGALACTIC PLANETS
The search for alien worlds continues, with surprising consequences
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Guion Bluford
He was the first African American astronaut to fly into space
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MARTIAN MOONS EXPLORATION
Japan’s next sample-collection feat will be to the second and third closest natural satellites in the Solar System
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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE CHALLENGER DISASTER
The first loss of a Space Shuttle and its crew was a preventable disaster, but it would go onto largely change NASA for the better
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WHAT LIES BETWEEN NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES?
There has long been thought to be a mass gap between these two cosmic heavyweights, but does the theory need to be revised?
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All About Space
Meade ETX90 Observer
If you’re looking for a beginner’s telescope that shows you the night sky at the press of a button, this motorised instrument is ideal for you
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DARK MATTER GALAXY DEBUNKED
Astronomers claimed a galaxy was 98 per cent dark matter… but they were wrong
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IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
All About Space speaks to Stargazing Live co-host and astronomy-mad comedian Dara Ó Briain, who divulges how isolation has revealed the wonders of astrophotography, his memories of the BBC hit show and whether life could be out there somewhere in the cosmos
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61 CYGNI THE STAR THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
In the newly released History of the Universe in 21 Stars (and 3 Imposters), the star 61 Cygni has been revealed to be the smoking gun in our understanding of the cosmos
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Why Don't Mercury Or Venus Have Any Moons?
"For mercury it's pretty clear that there isn't much room for a moon in the stable region"
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BBC History Magazine
Wonder of its age
Nestled in the Northumbrian hills, Cragside looms large through the trees. JULIAN HUMPHRYS explores the extraordinary Victorian mansion and gardens which were masterminded by an equally extraordinary engineer
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Christmas 2020
BBC History Magazine
RICHARD THE RADICAL
For centuries Richard III has been cast as a diabolical despot who would stop at nothing in pursuit of power. But, argues Matt Lewis, in reality, Richard was a champion of the common man – and it was this that ultimately led to his downfall
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Christmas 2020
BBC History Magazine
Our Dangerous Devotion To The Second World War
The west’s enduring obsession with the battle against Nazism is hampering its efforts to meet the challenges of the modern world
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Christmas 2020
BBC History Magazine
A Taste For Strange Meats And Husbands' Buttocks
From chewing coal to salivating over starch and shells, pregnant women in early modern England were consumed by a number of outlandish cravings. Jennifer Evans explores how doctors made sense of these bizarre – and sometimes dangerous – desires
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Christmas 2020
BBC History Magazine
Georg Elser Hitler's Would-Be Killer
In the latest instalment of our occasional series profiling remarkable yet unheralded characters from history, Roger Moorhouse introduces a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded
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Christmas 2020
All About Space
THE RIGHT STUFF EXCLUSIVE - “WE WOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO THE MOON WITHOUT PROJECT MERCURY”
With an exciting new series about Project Mercury landing on Disney+, All About Space speaks to the show’s technical consultant, Robert Yowell, about bringing his space engineering expertise to the show
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Six galaxies found trapped around a supermassive black hole
New data from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and other observatories gives astronomers a sense of black hole evolution when the universe was less than a billion years old.
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Physicists attempt to break the rules of gravity
A new test of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has proved the iconic physicist right again – this time by reanalysing the famous first-ever picture of a black hole, which was released in April 2019.
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WHAT'S BEHIND THE WOW! SIGNAL?
FOR OVER 40 YEARS ASTRONOMERS HAVE SOUGHT TO EXPLAIN A MYSTERIOUS ONE-OFF ‘ALIEN’ SIGNAL, BUT ARE WE NOW FINALLY CLOSE TO AN ANSWER?
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IS THERE LIFE ON VENUS?
A discovery in the cloud decks of the hostile planet could be the smoking gun for astrobiologists
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SCIENTISTS SPOT MAGNETARS' MISSING LINK
These magnetic stars might be more like pulsars than originally suspected
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Moon tour - The far side of the Moon
What wonders can be found on the mysterious side of the Moon which we can never see?
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