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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Graeme Whipps/Shutterstock (4301807b) Pic shows the Geminid meteor shower over Pitcaple in Aberdeenshire on Sunday evening Dec 14th. A Scottish photographer has managed to get some pictures of the Geminid meteor shower on its FINAL night above the UK. Amateur astronomer Graeme Whipps picked up 13 meteors on camera in the dramatic display above Pitcaple in Aberdeenshire last night (Sun).

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How to spot this year's Geminid meteor shower

The peak of the spectacular Geminids meteor shower is on the night of 14 and 15 December, but the shower is active from 4 December, says Abigail Beall

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Space flight may increase erectile dysfunction among astronauts

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Artist's impression of WASP-107b and its parent star

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Fluffy exoplanet blasted by its sun has clouds that rain sand

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An artist's impression of three merging black holes

Physics

Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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CAPTION Panels A and B show the side-on and underneath view of a hummingbird passing through an aperture sideways. C and D show the same views of the hummingbird passing thorough an aperture like a bullet with its wings swept back. CREDIT Marc Badger https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-lookup/doi/10.1242/jeb.245643

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Hummingbirds have two amazing ways to fly through tiny gaps

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location of distant black hole

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Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed

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Artistic representation of how the Milky Way-like galaxy ceers-2112 would look from Earth

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Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible

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20 July 1969. Neil Armstrong?s photos of Buzz Aldrin?s first steps on the Moon. This was what it all boiled down to in the end, even after the unprecedented feats of rocketry and all the extraordinary technical innovation which had safely flown two astronauts to a destination a quarter of a million miles from home: the basic human act of walking.

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Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book

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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

Comment

The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

A fresh vision of the Culture universe from Iain M. Banks plus new books from Brandon Sanderson and Naomi Alderman are among the science fiction treats in store this November

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Definition

Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

Space

Mouse embryos have been grown in space for the first time

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The scariest sci-fi horror movies for Halloween, chosen by an expert

Culture

Physics

The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

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