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When it comes to naming stars and planets, few could accuse astronomers of letting their imaginations run wild.
Many worlds suffer from…
The Week in Space and Physics: The Troubles of a Thirty Meter Telescope
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The Week in Space and Physics: The Nobel Prize, 2026
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has to be one of the coolest experiments ever devised by humanity.
For a start, it is literally cold. The…
How Euclid Sparked the Greatest Debate in the History of Mathematics
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A point is that of which there is no part.
And a line is a length without breadth.
And the extremities of a line are points.
~ The Elements
As far as mathematicians go, Euclid…
The Week in Space and Physics: SpaceX, Starship, and the Future
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Sometime next week, if all goes to plan, Starship…
The Week in Space and Physics: A Flash of Dark Matter?
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If the cosmologists are right, dark matter should be everywhere. More than that – it should outweigh…
The Week in Space and Physics: The Magic of an Eclipse
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They say that in 585 BC an eclipse stopped a war. One can almost imagine the scene: the stench of blood and the glint of metal,…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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The worlds of astronomy and espionage can seem, well, light-years apart. One deals with the messy realm of human affairs, with seduction…
The Week in Space and Physics: The Wandering Black Holes
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It sounds like the stuff of nightmares. A rogue black hole emerges out of nowhere, swallows the planets one…
Reflections on Placing Mirrors in Space
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In the world of The Lord of the Rings, the morning star bore the name of…
The Week in Space and Physics: Finally, an Exomoon?
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As a reminder, last weeks article So Simple a Thing as a Star is available for download in PDF and…
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