All About Space
JUPITER'S GREAT RED SPOT IS DEEPER THAN SCIENTISTS THOUGHT
The storm system isn’t just wide… it also has incredible
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All About Space
HEROES OF SPACE
A record-breaking astronaut who could be one of the first women to step foot on the Moon
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All About Space
ELUSIVE NEUTRINO CANDIDATES DETECTED IN BREAKTHROUGH PHYSICS EXPERIMENT
For the first time ever, researchers have detected neutrino candidates produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN facility near Geneva, Switzerland.
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All About Space
DOES EARTH HAVE A SECOND MOON?
There’s an asteroid tracking our planet’s orbit around the Sun, and astronomers have been surprised by its composition
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All About Space
ANTI-SATELLITE MISSILE TEST DRAWS CONDEMNATION
Across the globe, nations and space companies alike are speaking out against Russia’s anti-satellite test, which forced astronauts in space to take cover
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All About Space
CELESTRON SKYMASTER PRO 15X70
This binocular offers an amazing stargazing experience, with a good combination of magnification, aperture and portability
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All About Space
ALL ABOUT THE ORION NEBULA
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS CRADLE OF BABY STARS THAT’S VISIBLE FROM EARTH
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BBC History Magazine
Looting history
DAVID OLUSOGA praises a stark exploration of the bloodsoaked British raid that plundered the treasures of Benin
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January 2022
BBC History Magazine
A KING OF FIRE AND LIGHT
French ruler Louis IX was a Catholic hero and a vicious anti-Semite, a patron of exquisite art and a fervent burner of books. Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry consider the tangled legacy of a man who embodies both the horrors and beauty of medieval Europe
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January 2022
BBC History Magazine
Queen of Spies
Victoria controlled an extensive network of intelligence sources that fed explosive revelations to the British government - or direct to her. Rory Cormac and Richard J Aldrich investigate her adventures in espionage
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January 2022
All About Space
MOON TOUR EDDINGTON CRATER
Challenge yourself this month by locating one of the trickiest impacts on the lunar surface
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All About Space
James ‘Jim' Lovell
A space veteran who completed four impressive missions, including the ill-fated Apollo 13
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All About Space
THE COMPLETE GUIDE MARS
WE’RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE FOURTH ROCK FROM THE SUN EVERY DAY
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All About Space
ORION'S DEEP-SPACE TREASURES
The mighty Hunter has a horde of little-known treasures for you to track down and enjoy
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All About Space
THIS MONTH'S PLANETS
Look out for a bright ‘Christmas star’ gracing the evening sky this holiday season
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All About Space
“WE CAN BE AMAZING IF WE WANT TO BE”
Turner takes us behind the scenes of his docuseries Among the Stars, available now on Disney+
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BBC History Magazine
MEDIEVAL DUELS
In 1386, two Frenchmen fought a duel in a field outside Paris, each seeking to bury his blade in the other's body. One combatant had been accused of raping the other's wife, a charge he denied vehemently. After an initial verdict of innocence was returned, the accuser demanded a trial by combat. The judgment was now God's alone... ...who would be chosen to die?
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November 2021
BBC History Magazine
ROYAL The duke of duplicity
SARAH GRISTWOOD on a new profile of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson that casts them in a distinctly unflattering light
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November 2021
BBC History Magazine
FIVE BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT...Going to church in the Middle Ages
From social interaction to confessing your sins, Nicholas Orme reveals why the church HistoryExtra played such a central role in medieval life PODCAST INTERVIEW BY DAVID MUSGROVE
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November 2021
BBC History Magazine
Dark forces
MARION GIBSON praises a retelling of a 17th-century witchcraft trial that never loses sight of the women at its heart, nor the social and economic factors that contributed to their plight
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November 2021
BBC History Magazine
The worlds first superhero
When Alexander the Great died at the age of 32, his transformation into multicultural icon was only just beginning. Edmund Richardson chronicles the Macedonian king’s remarkable afterlife as the original global A-lister
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December 2021
BBC History Magazine
America's Fall Guy
King George III has long been cast as the crazed despot who squandered America. Yet, argues Andrew Roberts, this grim characterisation is the result not of hard facts but a historical stitch-up
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November 2021
All About Space
“IT IS STARTLINGLY CLEAR THAT THERE IS NO PLANET B”
The ESA’s first British astronaut reveals how space travel will develop, what life is like on board the ISS and why we need to protect our planet
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All About Space
WHAT LIT UP THE SKY IN 1054?
The Crab Nebula was formed by a supernova, and astronomers now think they know which type caused it
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All About Space
Water Vapour Detected On Huge Jupiter Moon Ganymede For The First Time
This could be a trend for icy bodies throughout the Solar System and beyond
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All About Space
Could We Hunt For Gravitational Waves From The Moon?
Such an observatory could unlock the cosmos’ secrets
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BBC History Magazine
The end of empires
RICHARD J EVANS lauds an innovative work that re-examines the Second World War in the context of global imperial ambitions
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October 2021
BBC History Magazine
Let's cherish this shining light of the great Bronze Age civilisations
THE TAMILS’ GLITTERING CULTURAL UNIVERSE
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October 2021
BBC History Magazine
War between friends
CORMAC O GRADA commends an ambitious attempt to objectively examine the conflict that pitted Irish people against each other in the wake of the bloody War of Independence
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October 2021
BBC History Magazine
Prejudice on the pitch
The racist abuse experienced by some of England’s black footballers after the team’s defeat in the Euro 2020 championship final in July thrust the issue of racism in the sport back into the spotlight. MATTHEW TAYLOR charts the causes and consequences of more than a century of discrimination
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