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A full Moon that looks blue. Credit: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/GettyImages

Astronomy explained What's a blue Moon?

A model of the Millenium Falcon starship on display at The Star Wars Identities exhibition, 29 January 2021 in Singapore. Credit: Suhaimi Abdullah / Getty Images

How realistic are Star Wars planets?

Illustration of the lithopanspermia theory of life on Earth. Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Panspermia: Could life be delivered to a planet?

Harlow Shapely and Heber Curtis. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / iStock / Getty Images / Bettmann Allegheny Observatory Records, University of Pittsburgh

Astronomy History The Great Debate

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Radio Astronomy Podcast Disordered Cosmos, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Harlow Shapely and Heber Curtis. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / iStock / Getty Images / Bettmann Allegheny Observatory Records, University of Pittsburgh

Podcast: How the Great Debate changed astronomy forever

What makes a planet habitable? Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser

What makes a planet habitable?

What is an exoplanet? Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lizbeth B. De La Torre

Astronomy explained What is an exoplanet?

Google Earth time lapse update

Google Earth Timelapse reveals changing face of planet Earth

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Astronomy explained What is a galaxy?

What are stars? Credit: Eric Lowenbach / Getty Images

Astronomy explained What are stars?

Federation Astronomical Societies 2021 Online Convention

Federation of Astronomical Societies Online Convention 2021

The Parker Solar Probe is one of many spacecraft studying the Sun. Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins APL, Steve Gribben

Solar missions: How scientists study the Sun

Galaxy NGC 4424, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

How do we measure distance in space?

The black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 as it appears in polarised light. Credit: EHT Collaboration

Eye On The Sky M87 black hole revealed in polarised light