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Space
Monster space telescope prepares for launch
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The art that is Hubble
Opinion
Catching the cold cosmos
Features
The Extravagant Universe by Robert Kirschner
Books & Arts
Resisting the dark side
Features
Cosmology Revealed by Anthony Fairall
Books & Arts
Into the Infrared
Features
Hold the front page . . . It seemed like any other morning. Then out of the blue came ‘the discovery of the century, perhaps of all time’, and the media were in hot pursuit
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Dark doubts for cosmology: The so-called cold dark matter theory of cosmology unites particle physics, cosmology and the theory of how galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed into an elegant package. Why does this impressive theory find itself in diffic
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Thirty years of the new astronomy: The past three decades have revealed that our history and our destiny are bound up with the stars in a way undreamt of by astrologers of the Middle Ages
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The answer to an astronomer’s prayer / Review of ‘Supernova, The Exploding Star Of 1987’ By Donald Goldsmith
Books & Arts