Astronomy
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‘The universe has opened up for us’: meet the astro-ambassadors who welcome stargazers to the Himalayas
A tourism initiative in India’s first dark sky reserve has brought new hope to a community as employment means…
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‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians. In AD…
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Spirals of blue light in New Zealand night sky leave stargazers ‘kind of freaking out’
Social media abuzz with pictures and theories about formations thought to be from exhaust plume of SpaceX rock…
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‘It is about our survival’: UAE’s Mars mission prepares for launch
Arab world’s first interplanetary mission will see probe orbit planet for a Martian year to study its climateT…
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Astronomers warn ‘wilderness’ of southern night sky at risk from SpaceX satellites
Stargazing under threat as pristine skies over New Zealand and Australia are clogged with hundreds of Starlink…