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Opinion | Spot the difference, on the Betelgeuse Star

A team of researchers began to probe the phenomena of the 'dimming' of the Betelgeuse Star. So what did cause Betelgeuse to dim? Sunspots. Betelgeuse-spots, actually.

7 min read7 Aug 2020
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The IT analyst who’s reaching for the stars to weed out superstition

In India we have these fears about astronomical events, like if a comet comes close to the Earth, or if there is a solar or lunar eclipse, people are afraid. We’re looking to bring them out of this superstitious thinking

3 min read1 Sep 2021
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Breakthrough Listen: There’s more out there

New findings from a scientific research programme that searches for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth

1 min read21 Sep 2018
Science

Cigar-shaped interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua classified as comet

The reddish cigar-shaped object called 'Oumuamua spotted last year tumbling through space is a comet

1 min read27 Jun 2018
Science

Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft points to new evidence of watery plumes over Europa

The revelations on Monday came after scientists revisited a puzzling reading from an instrument aboard Galileo, which in 1995 became the first spacecraft to enter the orbit of a gas giant planet

3 min read15 May 2018
Science

Nasa wants blast your name to the very edge of the Sun

Nasa is accepting until 27 April names that will be included on the Parker Solar Probe, which will get closer to the Sun than anything we've ever sent into space

1 min read18 Apr 2018
Science

Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope detects farthest star ever seen

Nasa scientists said they used Hubble Space Telescope to spot the star, which is up to a million times more luminous and about twice as hot as our sun, residing 9.3 billion lights years away from Earth

2 min read3 Apr 2018
Science

Stephen Hawking: ‘His laboratory was the universe’

With Stephen Hawking, his work was too complicated for most people, but they understood that what he was trying to figure out was basic, even primal

4 min read14 Mar 2018
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Stephen Hawking through the years

Stephen Hawking, who died at 76, was Britain's most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the UniverseStephen Hawking, who died at 76, was Britain's most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe.

14 Mar 2018
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Black holes: Gravity is the key

Astronomers are now using X-rays to study black holes that stay hidden behind clouds of gas and dust

9 min read13 Jan 2018
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