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Climate change and big tech are jeopardising the future of astronomy

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Climate change and big tech are jeopardising the future of astronomy

California's wildfires came worryingly close to burning down a treasured observatory. Sadly, fires aren't the only threat to astronomy, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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An Earth-sized rogue planet is roaming the galaxy without a star

Space

An Earth-sized rogue planet is roaming the galaxy without a star

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How to spot a Starlink satellite in the night sky

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How to spot a Starlink satellite in the night sky

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This 3.2 gigapixel cauliflower is the largest photograph ever taken

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This 3.2 gigapixel cauliflower is the largest photograph ever taken

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Strange worlds unlike Earth may be our best bet to find alien life

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Strange worlds unlike Earth may be our best bet to find alien life

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Large Magellanic Cloud

Space

Strange fast-moving clouds of gas may be suffocating the Milky Way

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Arecibo damage

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Snapped cable slashes a devastating hole in Arecibo radio telescope

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Why dark matter should be called something else

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Why dark matter should be called something else

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early galaxy

Space

Ancient serene galaxy suggests the early universe was eerily calm

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night sky

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The best view of the stars from Earth is on a hill in Antarctica

The best place on Earth from which to look at the night sky is a hill of ice in Antarctica – a telescope built there could take clearer images than could happen anywhere else

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Space

Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings

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Earth

Stunning night sky pictures shortlisted for astronomy photo prize

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Space

How to see the spectacular comet Neowise with the naked eye

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Circles in space made of radio waves are like nothing we've ever seen

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