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Archive for January 3rd, 2021

Could we ever pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to stop climate change?

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Can we harness natural and human-made carbon traps to help us slow climate change?

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Bad space weather may make life impossible near Proxima Centauri

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If you look up in the southern sky you can see the “pointer” stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross.

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On This Day in Space! Jan. 3, 2004: NASA’s Spirit rover lands on Mars

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On Jan. 3, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover landed on Mars! See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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Chuck Yeager was a Hollywood idea of a brave test pilot – today they must be skilled engineers too

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Charles “Chuck” Yeager, who has died aged 97, epitomised the movie test pilot of the 1940s and 1950s.

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This is what a supernova sounds like, according to NASA

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NASA’s new data sonification project turns the universe’s most extreme phenomena into sounds.

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‘War in space’ would be a catastrophe. A return to rules-based cooperation is the only way to keep space peaceful

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In 2019, US President Donald Trump declared “space is the new war-fighting domain”.

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