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4 Jul 2009
Top Story: A mysterious dark energy fills the universe...
By Rhiannon Buck
Dark energy makes the universe fly apart like a runaway freight train and keeps space-time flat as a pancake, but what is it? Hypothetical 'dark energy' is the most popular way of explaining why the universe is expanding at an ever increasing...
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Dark energy makes the universe fly apart like a runaway freight train and keeps space-time flat as a pancake, but what is it? Hypothetical 'dark energy' is the most popular way of explaining why the universe is expanding at an ever increasing...
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Ancient Chinese Astronomy: New insights from old information
China has the world’s longest-running observations of the sky: though based in astrology, they...
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China has the world’s longest-running observations of the sky: though based in astrology, they...
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More 2007 meteor showers on the way!
If you were disappointed that you missed the recent Perseid meteor shower, don’t fret there’s...
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If you were disappointed that you missed the recent Perseid meteor shower, don’t fret there’s...
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Featured Poem
The Junior God
By Robert W Service
The Junior God looked from his placeIn the conning towers of heaven,And he saw the world through the span of...
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The Junior God
By Robert W Service
The Junior God looked from his placeIn the conning towers of heaven,And he saw the world through the span of...
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Facts
Johannes Kepler used the recorded movement of Mars to formulate his three laws of planetary motion in the 17th Century, which laid the foundation for modern Astronomy. > More facts
Editor's Weekly
Comet Holmes - A big surprise!
It wasn’t supposed to be a big show – but it is. Visible in the night sky without binoculars...
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It wasn’t supposed to be a big show – but it is. Visible in the night sky without binoculars...
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Latest News
Explore the quantum and cosmos, June 30, 2009, at the World Conference of Science Journalists
Q. What do Alain Aspect, Kip Thorne, Anton Zeilinger, Sir...
Science fiction turns into reality
New book on space elevators and space tethers just published It...
Herschel's daring test: A glimpse of things to come
IMAGE: Red, green and blue...
Explore the quantum and cosmos, June 30, 2009, at the World Conference of Science Journalists
Q. What do Alain Aspect, Kip Thorne, Anton Zeilinger, Sir...
Science fiction turns into reality
New book on space elevators and space tethers just published It...
Herschel's daring test: A glimpse of things to come
IMAGE: Red, green and blue...
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