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Science: Has Halley’s Comet split in two?
News
Review: A pocketful of stars
Books & Arts
Astonomer Royal pledges support for basic science
News
Forum: Time to see the light – Street lighting can dim our prospects
Review: Stars of wonder, stars of light – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
Books & Arts
Review: How can you draw a crater on the Moon, sketch a glowing nebula or photograph a constellation? – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
Books & Arts
Review: Stars like grains of sand
Books & Arts
Talking Point: Why Hubble is really a success story
Opinion
Shudders in the fabric of space-time: Researchers around the world are racing to build a new type of telescope, that will detect gravitational waves from exploding stars, colliding pulsars and cosmic strings
Features
Home of Radio Waves / Review of How We Know About The Universe, an exhibition at the Jodrell Bank sciece centre, Macclesfield
Books & Arts
New moonlet slips through Saturn’s rings
News
‘Doomed’ Hipparcos mission is a success
News