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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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How a dash of science can help bake the perfect eggless chocolate cake

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Pillars of Creation (NIRCam and MIRI Composite Image) By combining images of the iconic Pillars of Creation from two cameras aboard NASA???s James Webb Space Telescope, the universe has been framed in its infrared glory. Webb???s near-infrared image was fused with its mid-infrared image, setting this star-forming region ablaze with new details. Myriad stars are spread throughout the scene. The stars primarily show up in near-infrared light, marking a contribution of Webb???s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). Near-infrared light also reveals thousands of newly formed stars ??? look for bright orange spheres that lie just outside the dusty pillars. In mid-infrared light, the dust is on full display. The contributions from Webb???s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) are most apparent in the layers of diffuse, orange dust that drape the top of the image, relaxing into a V. The densest regions of dust are cast in deep indigo hues, obscuring our view of the activities inside the dense pillars. Dust also makes up the spire-like pillars that extend from the bottom left to the top right. This is one of the reasons why the region is overflowing with stars ??? dust is a major ingredient of star formation. When knots of gas and dust with sufficient mass form in the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravitational attraction, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars. Newly formed stars are especially apparent at the edges of the top two pillars ??? they are practically bursting onto the scene. At the top edge of the second pillar, undulating detail in red hints at even more embedded stars. These are even younger, and are quite active as they form. The lava-like regions capture their periodic ejections. As stars form, they periodically send out supersonic jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for mi

Society

Why 'existential humility' may be the answer to today's culture wars

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Chemistry

Homemade malt is the key to baking the perfect loaf of bread

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Life

Debunking gardening myths: Does misting your houseplants really work?

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F3HB7N Underwater view of two technical divers using rebreathers device to locate shipwreck, Lombok, Indonesia

Mathematics

How spiral search patterns and lateral thinking cracked our puzzle

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Our home galaxy, the Milky Way in a starry sky. The three bright stars Deneb (left), Vega (middle top), and Altair (right) form the Summer Triangle. The red cloud near the star Deneb is the North America Nebula.

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How to spot the constellation Aquila and its deep-sky objects

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Health

Can a single therapy session nudge us towards better mental health?

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Health

How to make sure your chicken is properly cooked

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Environment

Gardening with 'native' plants isn't always better for the environment

The idea that native plants are better than “non-natives” has more to do with cultural bias than scientific evidence, says James Wong

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Mathematics

The easy trick to evenly cut a pizza into 5, 7 or any number of slices

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Space

It's a great time to see the Cygnus constellation – here's how

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Mind

Why great people don't always give good advice

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Chemistry

The science behind baking the perfect chocolate chip cookie

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