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Spaghetti in tomato sauce. Credit: Aleksandr Zubkov / Getty Images

What is nuclear pasta?

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1706

Eye On The Sky A Christmas galaxy in full view

The Christmas Tree Cluster. This image was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera attached to the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at La Silla Observatory, 2,400m high in the Chilean Atacama Desert. Credit: ESO

Christmas Tree Cluster: NGC 2264 glows a festive red

Image of an asteroid colliding and blocking out a star's light. Credit: NASA

The mystery of double-dipping stars

Illustration showing a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Why are there so many different kinds of planet?

An artist's impression of asteroids. Credit: NASA

Why do asteroids have such unusual shapes?

Tycho Crater by Fernando Oliveira De Menezes, São Paulo, Brazil. Equipment: C11 edge HD, So 290mc, IR Filter PASS 685.

How to observe and photograph lunar ray ejecta systems

Machina Electrica, engraved by Sidney Hall and publshed 1824. Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

8 forgotten constellations that didn’t catch on

Image of a silhouette of a man against the backdrop of the green glow of the aurora

Radio Astronomy Podcast How to see the Northern Lights

Uranus (left) and Neptune (right), as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA

Why we need to return to Uranus and Neptune

Illustration showing what our galaxy the Milky Way likely looks like.

Can we measure the mass of the Milky Way?

Europa viewed from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Note the bright ice, huge cracks and dark patches that probably contain both ice and dirt Image: NASA/Ted Stryk

How thick is moon Europa’s icy crust?

Artist's illustration of the Moon exploding

What would happen if the Moon exploded?

An artist's impression showing the black hole Cygnus X-1 in its binary system. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

How to locate black hole Cygnus X-1

Geologist and cosmo chemist Dr Natalie Starkey

Radio Astronomy Podcast Volcanoes of the Solar System