Written by “To look at the Earth from space is a bit like a child looking into a mirror and realising for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself. What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves,” the novelist and winner of this year’s Booker prize, Samantha Harvey, said in her […]
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SpaceX is set to launch 20 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California early Monday morning (Nov. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base during a four-hour window that opens at 12:47 a.m. EST (0447 GMT; 9:47 […]
Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the Earth is a sphere. We’ve all seen beautiful images of the Earth from space, some photographed by astronauts and others collected remotely by orbiting satellites. So why doesn’t our planet look round when we’re standing […]
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Make Me a Mixtape (Radio 1) | BBC Sounds 16 Sunsets (Antica and Telltale Studios) | Global Player Radio 3 Unwind | BBC SoundsHow to Play: Holst’s The Planets with the Royal College of Music and Sibelius Academy Orchestra (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds Ooh, a new season of one of the jolliest music […]
The final supermoon of 2024, the Beaver Moon of November, thrilled skywatchers around the world as it ushered in the weekend with a stunning night sky sight. November’s full moon rose on Friday (Nov. 15) while the moon was slightly closer to Earth in its orbit, making it what’s known as a supermoon. These full […]
How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant “dust battery” operating when the first stars appeared. Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there’s Earth’s magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic radiation, wiggles our […]
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