All About Space
WHAT IS DARK MATTER MADE OF?
The phenomena may have come from quantum bags that got squished together in the early universe
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All About Space
MILLIONAIRE MOON TOURISM
Fancy a trip around the Moon? That’s what Space Adventures is offering to anyone able to afford the multimillion-dollar price tag
3 min |
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All About Space
GOING BACK TO THE MOON
This year, NASA will take the first step in returning astronauts to the lunar surface
10 min |
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BBC History Magazine
Who is Britain's greatest monarch?
This year marks the platinum jubilee of Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch. But which of the kings and queens since 1066 made the biggest mark on history? We asked 12 experts to offer their nominations - and to explain what made each one truly great
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February 2022
All About Space
GENERAL RELATIVITY PASSES ITS TOUGHEST TEST YET
The theory, which Albert Einstein published in 1915, remains undefeated
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BBC History Magazine
Cursed lives
MARION GIBSON recommends an evocative deep-dive into a witchcraft trial that rocked 17th-century New England
2 min |
February 2022
All About Space
WHAT IS A LIGHT YEAR?
How we measure vast distances across the universe
2 min |
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BBC History Magazine
A very ordinary king
HEATHER JONES is impressed by a new biography that reveals insights about the wartime monarch’s impressive political achievements, complex personal life and family failings
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February 2022
All About Space
THE BIG BANG THEORY
It’s our best model of how the universe works, but where did it come from?
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All About Space
MATT ONDLER: 'WE WILL SEE IDEAS AND PRODUCTS WE CAN'T IMAGINE TODAY'
Axiom Space’s chief technology officer Matt Ondler on life after the International Space Station
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BBC History Magazine
A timber-framed Tardis
Incongruously sandwiched between shops and pubs in a Norfolk market town stands a Tudor building crammed with stories spanning more than two millennia of local history. PRIYA ATWAL explores Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life
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February 2022
All About Space
ERUPTION SEEN ON ALIEN STAR FOR FIRST TIME
The outburst is about ten times more powerful than anything similar seen from our Sun
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All About Space
COMPLETE GUIDE TO EXOPLANETS
Our knowledge of worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades
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All About Space
BLACK HOLE IN MILKY WAY'S SATELLITE DEFIES EXPLANATION
Dwarf galaxy Leo I’s giant central area seems too big for such a small host
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BBC History Magazine
Coded Language
Michael Wood praises a pioneering study of the transformation of Chinese script, and how this helped fuel the growth of the nation into one of the world's superpowers
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February 2022
BBC History Magazine
Q&A - Who was history's most notorious pirate?
A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
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February 2022
All About Space
WHAT HAPPENS TO EARTH'S DISAPPEARING CRUST?
Scientists may have finally figured out the mystery of subduction zones
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All About Space
THERE'S A BARRIER AROUND THE MILKY WAY'S CENTRE
Astronomers discover an enormous, bizarre feature separating the centre of the Milky Way from the cosmic ray sea
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All About Space
MENELAUS CRATER
How to find the impact at the end of one of the longest rays on the Moon
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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
10+ min |
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
10+ min |
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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