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An open letter from UK physics teachers opposing budget cuts proposed by the Government has so far received more than 100 signatures. The Royal Astronomical Society has been encouraging teachers to put their names to the letter in...
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This image was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on 1 January 2019 during a flyby of Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, known as Arrokoth.
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Why some objects in space look like snowmen
An artist’s impression of the stellar dimming event caused by a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter with massive rings (foreground) forming an opaque “saucer” through which some light from the star ASASSN-24fw (background) shines.
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Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star
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'Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart'
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