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Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Video

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021

Royal Observatory astronomer Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder takes us on a tour of some of the best images from this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year.

Video

concept image of global satellite communications system

Space

UK night skies will be among worst hit by satellite megaconstellations

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Crew standing in front of rocket

Space

SpaceX is about to send the first ever all-amateur mission into orbit

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Space

Should we ban space weapons to stop the huge space junk problem?

Analysis

Ophiuchus constellation

Space

Mysterious cosmic rays spotted coming from ordinary stellar explosions

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Solar panels in space

Space

Solar panels in space could help power the UK by 2039, claims report

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Snake-like robot

Technology

Snake-like robot could explore Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

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Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar

Space

From Interstellar to Hidden Figures: 12 of the best space movies

Culture

venus

Space

Comet’s dust trail could rain down on Venus this December

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Stopwatch at swimming race

Technology

Stopwatch errors could make race times wrong by a tenth of a second

Digital stopwatches can make rounding errors of up to 0.11 seconds, which could be enough to change the winner of close races. Although the devices record time extremely accurately internally, they often make errors when converting that raw data to human-readable values

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Question

How fast does Earth spin?

Space

Who counts as an astronaut? Not Jeff Bezos, say new US rules

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Space

World’s first commercial deep-space communications antenna opens in UK

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Space

The eternal debate about the eternal inflation of the universe

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