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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen

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ISS livestream: Watch a live link-up with astronaut Andreas Mogensen

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander on the International Space Station, answers questions from students at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Live ahead of him doing his first spacewalk on Thursday

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Herbig-Haro 46/47, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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JWST should soon glimpse the very first stars born after the big bang

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A fully deployed OTIS, with the secondary mirror extended over the primary mirror, is removed from Chamber A after a successful thermal-vacuum test in 2017. Seen still in the chamber is a sunshield simulator, called the L5 Simulator, representing the fifth and innermost layer of the sunshield. The telescope would be shipped to the Northrop Grumman facility in California to be integrated with the real sunshield. I was suspended on a lift for this shot. Page 119

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A glimpse inside how the James Webb Space Telescope was put together

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The best new science fiction books of October 2023

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The best new science fiction books of October 2023

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Students search desert for lost rocket after attempted launch to space

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Students search desert for lost rocket after attempted launch to space

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Super-heatproof computer memory survives temperatures over 500°C

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image of the galaxy cluster El Gordo

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Distant galaxies are gobbling up an unexpected amount of gas

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Northern Lights over Culloden, Scotland

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How to see the northern lights this winter

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Back to the Future

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The 10 best time travel movies ever made, according to a metaphysicist

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Artist's concept of Makemake

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Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected oceans of liquid water

Dwarf planets aren’t expected to carry liquid water, but hints of surprising geological activity spotted with JWST indicate that some of them might have buried oceans

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Data leak means anyone can see when astronauts urinate on the ISS

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JWST has taken an astonishing image of a baby star with powerful jets

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Physics

How soap operas can help us understand special relativity

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It's a great time to see the Cygnus constellation – here's how

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