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Periodic comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has broken up at least twice. A cosmic souffle of ice and dust left over from the early solar system, this comet was first seen to split into several large pieces during the close-in part of its orbit in 1995. However, in the 2006 passage, it…
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Russian pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC’s Global Disinformation Team has found. Known in Russia as “Z Bloggers”, they spread fake news about the war by embedding with military units, sharing exclusive footage from the frontline, and calling upon…
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These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke the imagery of flowers. Still, this deep telescopic image shows off the Iris Nebula’s range of colors and symmetries embedded in…
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In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular…
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M83 played at several festivals in Europe and some in the US, they had just released their last album (Junk 2016) preceded by the media success of the album (Hurry Up We Are Dreaming 2011) with its very iconic and very famous song Midnight City led the band to a…
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“We are making different types of drones, you know, naval drones, underwater drones and including drones from cardboard.” Adviser to Ukraine’s military Yuriy Sak says UK support is crucial but drones made from cardboard were also highly effective in attacking Russian airfields.
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Hurricane Idalia is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/BVnNTea
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Not the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken about 2 minutes after the launch of of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the…
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If rumours of Vladimir Putin’s mystery illness are to be believed, it could be the very thing that gets the Russian president out of the Kremlin unscathed, says Michael Binyon. Michael Binyon is a an award winning journalist and author. In his fifty years at The Times, he’s been a…
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“Now the elite will feel more able to turn against Putin.” Killing Prigozhin will only heighten infighting among Russian military command and will damage support in Putin’s inner circle, Mark Galeotti tells #timesradio