Space
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While 12P/Pons-Brooks may not be as famous as Halley’s, its appearance close to Jupiter is causing great excitement for stargazers
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Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field
Sierra SolterOur ozone is pennies thick – and soon we’ll put at least an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metallic ash into the ionosphere every year -
BH3 spotted when scientists chanced upon star in Aquila constellation ‘wobbling’ under its gravitational force
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The wealth of emerging evidence suggest that physics may be on the brink of something big
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Annual event promises between five and 20 meteors an hour with a few rare cases becoming much brighter ‘fireballs’
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Meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable features
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Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies
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For scientists a total solar eclipse can be a fleeting chance to understand something deeper about their field of research. Madeleine Finlay meets professors Huw Morgan and Adam Hartstone-Rose to find out what they hoped to learn from 8 April’s four minutes of darknessPodcast
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Crowds gathered along ‘path of totality’ in Mexico, the US and Canada to view ethereal event
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Almost 32 million people in the path of totality as moon’s shadow crossed the Mexico-Texas border and then traversed 15 states
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The weather largely cooperated as eclipse watchers were awarded with a heavenly event as clouds parted and sun and moon merged
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You might have to travel a bit – and wait a few years – but there will be another eclipse as long as the sun, moon and Earth are in orbit
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Travel agency rearranged lodging for dozens of people after two-year-old bookings were canceled – and resold at higher rates
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Settlement in case allows six people to view the total eclipse after suing to oppose state’s decision to lock down prison
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