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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

Starlink satellites trail across images from DECam

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are interfering with astronomy again

19 November 2019

The second batch of Starlink satellites, launched last week by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, are interfering with astronomical observations of the southern sky

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

We have the first full map of the weird surface features of Titan

18 November 2019

Astronomers have used data from the Cassini spacecraft to build a full map of Titan’s geological features for the first time, revealing strange belts of different terrains

Astronaut working on the outsdie of the International Space Station

Low gravity in space made some astronauts’ blood flow backwards

15 November 2019

Spending time in microgravity can reverse the flow of a person’s blood and lead to clots, as seen in astronauts who spent months on the International Space Station

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