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In 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen pointed a spectroscope at a solar eclipse in India and saw a yellow line that matched no known…
During a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India on 18 August 1868, Pierre Janssen saw a yellow spectral line that matched no known element on Earth. The gas he had spotted in the Sun's chromosphere would not be isolated on this planet for another 27 years.
Human Behaviour
Some of the loneliest people in their fifties aren't the ones without partners or children, they're the ones surrounded by people who only…
Midlife loneliness often hides inside full calendars and long marriages. The people most at risk are the useful ones — reliable, capable, endlessly available — whose relationships have quietly organised themselves around what they provide rather than who they are.
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Voyager 2 may have caught Uranus on a freak day
After twelve years and more than seven billion kilometres, Voyager 2 arrived at Neptune within 100 kilometres of where it had been aimed
Saturn now has at least 285 confirmed moons
The nearest star system sits 4.2 light-years away—a distance today’s spacecraft would need tens of thousands of years to cross, yet a…
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
AI actually flying on spacecraft today is a narrow fix for one physical problem, not machine judgment
Mars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return is still being redesigned, and NASA's Aeolus…
A child who can see 250 stars today may see fewer than 100 from the same place at eighteen
The Mission Robotic Vehicle launched on July 21 with two seven-jointed arms meant to inspect, relocate and upgrade ageing satellites
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AI actually flying on spacecraft today is a narrow fix for one physical problem, not machine judgment
A child who can see 250 stars today may see fewer than 100 from the same place at eighteen
The Mission Robotic Vehicle launched on July 21 with two seven-jointed arms meant to inspect, relocate and upgrade ageing satellites
Mercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin…
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