It’s always upsetting when one of your heroes – or, at least, one of the people you admire and respect – does or says something to let you down. It happens all the time, I know, it’s part of life, but it’s still upsetting. We put people – film and sports stars, politicians, friends and [...]
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One of the best things about the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter’s fantastic HiRISE camera is that it’s the latest fantastic camera put into orbit around Mars. There were others before it. This means that scientists – and armchair martians – can look for changes on the surface of Mars by comparing images taken by different cameras [...]
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The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a new image that is an absolute stunner. It shows a large, beautifully milky, misty galaxy – NGC 4921 – which is part of the huge Coma Cluster of galaxies, and the galaxy is pretty impressive in its own right. But the most incredible thing about the image is that [...]
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