Keeping a telescopic eye on the Soviets
How Jodrell Bank Observatory became entangled in the Space Race
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All alone in the universe?
Jack Lissauer reviews Lee Billings' Five Billion Years of Solitude, a collection of stories about exoplanet science
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Web life: Mahalo.ne.Trash
Astronomer John Johnson shares his thoughts on science, culture and family life in this oddly titled personal blog
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BICEP2's findings trigger new kind of 'inflation'
The many arXiv papers based on BICEP2's data
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Quantum telescope could make giant mirrors obsolete
Proposal uses cloned photons to beat diffraction limit
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Pivoting exoplanets could harbour life
Tilted orbits might allow water to remain liquid on the surface
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Russia mulls over huge 60 m telescope
Facility would join the hunt for exoplanets
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First discovery of double star that brightens during eclipse
Einstein's general theory of relativity explains the phenomenon
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Could pulsars explain the positron excess?
AMS-02 dataset accounted for without dark-matter contribution
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Europe launches first Sentinel satellite
Mission will monitor the Earth in unprecedented detail
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