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17 photos of the new James Webb Space Telescope
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China’s Yutu 2 rover discovers a ‘cube’ on the dark side of the moon
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Rare ‘blue jet’ lightning spotted and photographed from space
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This telescope will spy distant galaxies using 168 off-the-shelf Canon lenses
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Photographer captures a ‘once-in-a-lifetime image’ of astronauts spacewalking outside the ISS
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NASA’s next space telescope could have a liquid lens and be 100x larger than Webb
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How to ‘focus’ a six-ton space telescope
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This stunning crescent moon was captured by astronauts aboard the ISS with a Nikon D5
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Hubble in trouble – NASA’s famous space telescope is operating in ‘safe mode’
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Fifty years ago Hasselblad sent the first cameras to the moon
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A fully aligned James Webb Space Telescope snaps its first photo and exceeds ‘every expectation’
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A modified Pentax 300mm f/4 heads into space aboard a nanosatellite
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15 incredible photos taken by the Rosetta spacecraft
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NASA’s high-tech new Earth observing satellite snaps its first shots
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This 15 minute time-lapse from space takes you around the world twice
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Catch a Buck Moon, luminous Venus, and more in the sky this July
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Here’s what you can expect to see in the night sky throughout May
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The James Webb Telescope just sent back these amazing images of a dying star
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Final images from NASA’s asteroid smashing satellite
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Bling, bling, Webb photographs Neptune’s rarely-seen rings
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Ephemeral auroras and playful galaxies: these are the Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners
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Dark energy camera snaps a mouthwatering 570-megapixel image of the ‘Lobster Nebula’
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Turn up the heat with these fiery, stunningly-detailed images of our sun
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A dark matter camera will soon allow scientists to peer into atomic clouds
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The Tarantula Nebula will ensnare you in a web of beauty
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Gaze into the heart of a ‘Phantom Galaxy’
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Webb photographs what may be the universe’s oldest galaxy
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A stormy, iridescent Jupiter shines bright in Webb’s latest images
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Video: Lightspeed! Webb cruises through space to a galaxy far away
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State-of-the-art supercomputer spits out super-detailed supernova snap
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