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‘Year’s best meteor shower’ and the moon’s ‘whistle-stop tour’ – what to look out for in the night sky from this weekend | Science & Tech News
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July is a good month for stargazing, with meteor showers kicking off above our heads and the moon sitting near Saturn, Uranus, the Pleiades, Jupiter and Mars. Although the meteor showers won’t peak until the end of the month or later, the Delta Aquariids shower should start being visible over the weekend. Meteor spotting The…
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Why the moon’s south pole is the chequered flag of space race 2.0 | Science & Tech News
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The far side of the moon is rugged and mysterious. Always hidden from Earth, it wasn’t until the space probe Luna 3 took the first pictures in 1959 that we got to see its mountains and deep craters. And 65 years on, we still don’t know much about it. That’s why China’s Chang’e 6 mission…
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Juice mission delayed: The European Space Agency’s mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s moons | Science & Tech News
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A space mission with a name like no other is about to embark on a journey to find alien life on the moons of Jupiter – when the weather allows, at least. Juice (that’s short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is a European Space Agency (ESA) venture to make unprecedentedly detailed observations of the gas…
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Juice: The European Space Agency’s mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s moons | Science & Tech News
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A space mission with a name like no other is about to embark on a journey to find alien life on the moons of Jupiter. Juice (that’s short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is a European Space Agency (ESA) venture to make unprecedentedly detailed observations of the gas giant. It will include searching its icy…
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James Webb space telescope captures Neptune rings and moons | Science & Tech News
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NASA has released new images capturing Neptune and its rings, taken by the James Webb space telescope in July. Neptune is the solar system’s outermost planet which has thin rings with faint dust bands around it. These have been observed in infrared for the first time, allowing for seven of Neptune’s 14 moons to be…