On this day in 1868 an unsung astronomer, who helped to discover our place in the universe, was born
Astronomy
Astronomy
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What is Heat Death?
Is this one of the ways the universe could end?
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What is a mini black hole?
Are these dense objects scattered throughout the universe?
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Newly discovered Star Trek world ‘dead ringer’ for Spock’s home planet
The Dharma Planet Survey has shown that science fiction may be a little less so
Astronomy
Heroes of Space: Clyde Tombaugh
The amateur astronomer who discovered Pluto and visited the dwarf planet after his death
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What happens when two galaxies collide?
Do things crash together or is it more serene?
Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: Professor Stephen Hawking
We take a look at the life so far of one of the greatest physicists of the modern day.
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How close to the edge of a galaxy can planets exist?
Is there such a thing as a ‘galactic habitable zone’?
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Is there a centre of the universe?
Gemma Lavender gets to the bottom of this question for us.
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Astronomers finally find the universe’s ‘missing matter’
Ordinary matter, or ‘baryons’, make up all physical objects in existence, from stars to the cores of black holes
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What is a magnetar?
Is a magnetar some kind of magnetic star? Find out here
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Where did the first particles of light come from?
The very first particles of light came from somewhere. We find out where
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What shape is space?
There’s plenty of it, so what shape do we think the universe is?
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What makes hypervelocity stars move so fast?
We take a look at what causes these stars to speed across the universe
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Stephen Hawking: “I was playing poker with Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Commander Data on the Starship Enterprise!”
Back in 2014, we caught up with the great scientist to get his thoughts on the universe, his cameo in Star Trek: The Next Generation and why we could be living in a hologram
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Early galaxies found to rotate like whirlpools
The gas within the galactic structures, which were formed less then a billion years after the Big Bang, have been discovered to have a ‘swirling’ behaviour
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Alien megastructure confirmed as unlikely cause of star’s weird behaviour
A team of more than 200 researchers is one step closer to solving the mystery behind Tabby’s Star
Solar System
It’s Christmas on Mars! But does it snow on the Red Planet?
Could the fourth rock from the Sun have a white Christmas?
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Astronomers discover multiple supermassive black hole pairings
Fewer than ten of these double gigantic high-gravity objects were known previously
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Record-breaking, low-oxygen galaxy provides snapshot into early universe
Dwarf galaxy J0811+4730 may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the young cosmos