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The Pleiades Star Cluster Has a Secret Stellar Family
The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history
Categories: Astronomy
This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 2 – 11
The bright Moon shines over Jupiter, Pollux and Castor on Friday evening the 2nd, then
groups right up among them on Saturday the 3rd.
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Categories: Astronomy
A neighbouring vista of stellar birth
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A neighbouring vista of stellar birth
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Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Player of Games - and most of us were fans of this big-thinking Culture tale
Categories: Astronomy
Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Player of Games - and most of us were fans of this big-thinking Culture tale
Categories: Astronomy
The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot
The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she created her startling protagonist
Categories: Astronomy
The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot
The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she created her startling protagonist
Categories: Astronomy
Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Sierra Greer's protagonist, a sex robot called Annie
Categories: Astronomy
Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Sierra Greer's protagonist, a sex robot called Annie
Categories: Astronomy
Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA due to rare condition
A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of chimerism
Categories: Astronomy
Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA due to rare condition
A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of chimerism
Categories: Astronomy
The ALMA Array is Completed With 145 New Low-Noise Amplifiers
The Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), the world's most powerful radio telescope, has received 145 new low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) that will increase its range and sensitivity.
Categories: Astronomy
'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China
'Wake up and ask yourself, 'Is what I'm doing helping us get back to the moon?' … If it's not, stop doing it.'
Categories: Astronomy
SpaceX launches powerful satellite to orbit for Indonesian telecom company
It was the 114th Falcon 9 mission of 2025 already.
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Astronomers finally find elusive, dust-shrouded supermassive black holes at ‘Cosmic Dawn’
"This shows how effective the approach of 'Discover with Subaru Telescope, explore with James Webb' can be."
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108 million degrees! Solar flares are far hotter than thought, study suggests
The new finding may solve an "astrophysics mystery that has stood for nearly half a century."
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James Webb Space Telescope studies a 'failed star' named 'The Accident' to solve an old mystery of Jupiter and Saturn
"Sometimes it's the extreme objects that help us understand what's happening in the average ones."
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Sun dogs, rainbows and glories are celestial wonders – and they may appear in alien skies too
These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.
Categories: Astronomy
Infrared instruments could spot exotic ice on other worlds
Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.
Categories: Astronomy
James Webb Space Telescope images enormous star shooting out twin jets 8 light-years long
The beams hint at the true scale of the massive star that spawned them.
Categories: Astronomy