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Space

Supernovae, spacewalks and snow: The week in space

By Maggie Mckee

1 October 2008

Video: Europe’s first space cargo ship, the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle, plunged into the atmosphere and broke apart before falling into the Pacific Ocean (Courtesy of ESA)

Over the past week, astronomers reported finding a nearby supernova that had been overlooked for a decade, Chinese astronauts performed their first spacewalk and a robotic spacecraft plunged spectacularly into Earth’s atmosphere.

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