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Watch the far side of the moon pass in front of Earth

Space

Watch the far side of the moon pass in front of Earth

NASA's DSCOVR spacecraft has snapped the side of the moon we rarely see as it passes between our planet and the sun

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Vibrating stars could reveal elusive ripples in space-time

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Pluto looms large, a day before New Horizons's closest approach

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Pluto looms large, a day before New Horizons's closest approach

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Hoped-for dark matter flash might instead be the corpses of stars

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Hoped-for dark matter flash might instead be the corpses of stars

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Misbehaving pulsar's sudden slow-down may teach us how they tick

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Misbehaving pulsar's sudden slow-down may teach us how they tick

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Galaxy's supermassive black hole is a cool neighbourhood for ice

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Galaxy's supermassive black hole is a cool neighbourhood for ice

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Rainbow X-ray echoes pinpoint faraway neutron star

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Rainbow X-ray echoes pinpoint faraway neutron star

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Construction resumes on Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope

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Construction resumes on Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope

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Don't fear apocalyptic asteroids: you're safer than you think

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Don't fear apocalyptic asteroids: you're safer than you think

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Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet

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Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet

Sedna is one of several "ice dwarfs" in our solar system with bizarre orbits. Could the young sun's gravity have snatched them from a passing star?

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Supernova prized by astronomers begins to fade from view

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Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers' thirst

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Pluto's strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz

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Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down

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