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See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week

20 November 2019

Two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, are in conjunction this week, meaning they appear to line up with Earth in the sky. Here's how to spot them
Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.

Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

18 November 2019

A sophisticated computer simulation of the universe, approximately 1 billion light years across, is modelling tens of thousands of galaxies

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