What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw breath from water, to be (if one is lucky) oblivious to the parched terrestrial world above?
Maybe you suspect there isn’t much to fish — and you could…
Category: 7. Science
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James Webb Space Telescope spots a gassy baby galaxy throwing a tantrum in the early universe
A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it’s shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.
Recently, an international team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover a bright, young galaxy in the…
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Gold reveals new atomic phase under 10 million times Earth’s pressure
Researchers have captured the most detailed look yet at how gold’s atomic structure changes under some of the highest pressures ever achieved in a laboratory.
The new findings offer rare insight into how matter behaves deep inside giant…
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Magic-angle graphene superconductivity mystery solved by scientists using tunnelling spectroscopy
Scientists studying ‘magic-angle’ graphene have captured the clearest evidence yet of the electronic signature behind its superconductivity, cutting through years of speculation over what actually drives its exotic behaviour.
‘When…
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Finding star clusters in the Lost Galaxy
Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (The Maiden). This galaxy has been nicknamed the ‘Lost Galaxy’ because…
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Violent ‘storms’ hidden under Antarctica’s ice could be speeding its decline
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how quickly humans are heating the planet, such a…
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Japanese spacecraft faces a massive challenge from a house-size asteroid
Astronomers have gathered new data on the asteroid 1998 KY26 using observatories across several continents, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). These coordinated observations show that the asteroid is…
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ESA Prepares to explore the Moon with small missions
Enabling & Support 21/11/2025
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0 likesTo reach new exploration heights, it is important that we find space missions that can be launched at a lower cost, especially when we’re talking about…
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This dying star is forming a strange spider structure, and Webb is giving scientists a brand new view
This incredible picture of cosmic chaos shows a dying star ejecting shells of material outwards into space.
The extended lobes and twisted knots of gas and dust have earned the object, NGC 6537, the nickname Red Spider Nebula.
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The Sky Today on Friday, November 21: Uranus reaches opposition – Astronomy Magazine
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