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# supermassive big star

Meet Katie Bouman, the MIT computer scientist who made the black hole image possible

Bouman has herself became an internet celebrity after yesterday’s picture.

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Apr 11th 2019, 12:39 PM

# no escape

This is the first ever image of a black hole, located in a galaxy 53 million light years away

“It’s like trying to photograph a golf ball on the Moon.”

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Apr 10th 2019, 2:11 PM

# ideal touchdown

Japan probe lands 300 million km away in hunt for clues to origin of life

Meanwhile, Israel began a mission to make its first Moon landing.

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Feb 22nd 2019, 7:27 AM

# mission complete

After roving on Mars for 15 years and sending back 217,594 images, Opportunity is now dead

The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.

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Feb 14th 2019, 7:42 AM

# Mars One

That plan to make a colony on Mars and film it for reality TV has gone bust

The company is in the red, as it were.

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Feb 12th 2019, 12:05 PM

# Fast radio bursts

Discovery of 'repeating' radio waves from deep space baffles astronomers

The waves were discovered by Canadian scientists, who cannot explain their origin.

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Jan 9th 2019, 9:44 PM

# change 4

Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on moon's far side

China plans to send its Chang’e 5 probe to the moon next year.

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Jan 3rd 2019, 6:49 AM

# the great beyond

A meteor shower peaking tonight rings in the start of a busy year for stargazing

A supermoon later this month is the first of three in a row.

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Jan 3rd 2019, 6:45 AM

# new horizons

Celebrations as NASA spacecraft successfully passes by oldest cosmic body ever studied

The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.

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Jan 1st 2019, 10:48 AM

# new horizons

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft closing in on most distant world ever studied

The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.

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Dec 28th 2018, 7:08 PM

# Research

Saturn is losing its rings at the 'worst-case scenario' rate

The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.

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Dec 18th 2018, 12:42 PM

# VSS Unity

Virgin Galactic reaches space for first time

“This is a momentous day and I could not be more proud of our teams,” Richard Branson said.

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Dec 13th 2018, 10:55 PM

# interstellar

Nasa's Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space 41 years after launch

Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.

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Dec 11th 2018, 10:08 AM

# Mars

Here are the first photos of Mars from the InSight explorer

A lovely sight this grim morning.

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Nov 27th 2018, 9:31 AM

# Out of this World

Quiz: How much do you know about the moon?

This quiz is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind*.

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Oct 21st 2018, 9:00 PM

# Space Exploration

Mission to discover the mysteries of Mercury blasts off

The BepiColombo blasted off from French Guiana earlier today.

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Oct 20th 2018, 2:32 PM

# International Space Station

'Thank God they're alive': Crew of Soyuz rocket safe after emergency landing

The rocket landed in Kazakhstan.

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Oct 11th 2018, 11:04 AM

# the farthest

Irish-produced documentary about Voyager space programme wins Emmy award

The American awards recognise excellence in the television industry.

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Oct 2nd 2018, 10:47 AM

# in sight

A Nasa spacecraft that will land on an asteroid and take a sample has just glimpsed its target

The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.

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Aug 24th 2018, 10:30 PM

# SpaceX

SpaceX vows manned flight to space station is on schedule

On 3 August the agency named the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019.

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Aug 14th 2018, 7:49 AM

# guns in space

Space Force to be a branch of US military and will prepare for 'next battlefield'

Nasa, by comparison, is an independent and civilian branch of government.

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Aug 9th 2018, 6:12 PM

# the bloodening

Tonight's blood moon is the longest of the 21st century - here's when you can see it best

The lunar eclipse coincides with a close passing of Mars in tonight’s sky.

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Jul 27th 2018, 9:29 AM

# Discovery

'Oddball' among 12 new moons discovered around Jupiter

The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.

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Jul 17th 2018, 9:16 PM

# space tourism

The first space tourist flights could happen over the next year

Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are racing to be the first to finish their tests.

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Jul 14th 2018, 6:30 PM

# Interstellar Technologies

Japanese rocket crashes and explodes shortly after take off

No injuries were reported in the spectacular explosion.

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Jun 30th 2018, 1:46 PM

# arralis

Meet the 'secretive' Limerick man who's quietly putting eyes on spacecraft and cars

Arralis CEO Barry Lunn is working towards the motoring industry’s ‘iPhone moment’.

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May 13th 2018, 9:30 PM

# Gimme space

'It's like standing inside the yellow line when a train goes past' - Why cyclists want a bit of space

Motorists are being asked to give cyclists space this weekend.

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May 5th 2018, 8:30 AM

# Astronomy

Galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age, new study finds

“This is the first time we’ve shown shape and age are related for all kinds of galaxies.”

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Apr 29th 2018, 7:45 AM

# Out of this World

Irish scientists will help build the world's most powerful and expensive telescope

The new telescope will be 10 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope and help us observe the first stars in the universe.

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Apr 9th 2018, 2:28 PM

# Dragon

SpaceX capsule reaches space station with food and experiments

The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.

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Apr 4th 2018, 5:57 PM

# tiangong-1

Defunct Chinese space station plunges back to Earth over South Pacific

The remote location of its landing made it difficult for stargazers to witness the event.

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Apr 2nd 2018, 7:48 AM

# omg moment

Astronomers find the 'impossible': A galaxy without dark matter

The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed.

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Mar 30th 2018, 11:59 AM

# do not panic

Debris from space station hurtling towards Earth not expected to hit populated areas

One expert said the odds of being struck by space debris are 10 million times less likely than getting hit by lightening.

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Mar 27th 2018, 8:45 PM

# Prostitution

Buying sex has been illegal in Ireland for one year but 'very little' has changed

Supporters and detractors of the new law have spoken of their frustration over the new bill.

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Feb 23rd 2018, 6:01 AM

# to boldly grow

Japanese astronaut apologises after saying he'd grown 9cm while in space

His Russian captain suspected that 9cm was “too much elongation”. He was right.

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Jan 10th 2018, 2:45 PM

# tabby's star

We're one step closer to understanding the 'most mysterious star in the universe'

Tabby’s Star has been inexplicably dimming and brightening sporadically like no other for years.

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Jan 7th 2018, 7:45 AM

# star gazing

Pics: Here's how the first supermoon of the year looked around the world last night

Did you see it?

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Jan 2nd 2018, 9:29 AM

# it's... beautiful

Someone sent a kebab into space, and it's strangely majestic

One small step for kebab, one giant leap for kebab-kind.

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Dec 31st 2017, 2:15 PM

# RIP

Bruce McCandless, the first astronaut to fly untethered in space, has died

He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker’s jetpack.

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Dec 22nd 2017, 10:19 PM

# to boldly go

Trump signs order to send astronauts to the moon, to Mars and 'perhaps many worlds beyond'

Budget issues have curtailed similar efforts by other Republican presidents.

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