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The Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin (opens the original)
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Every so often a piece of research comes along that isn't really about a discovery, it's about a mistake we didn't know we were making. This is one of those, and it happens to be about one of our nearest planetary neighbours. Venus takes 243 Earth days to turn once on its axis, one of the slowest rotations of anything in the Solar System. But if you only watched its clouds, you'd conclude something completely different. The upper atmosphere of Venus races around the planet in about four days fla
The Sun Doesn't Care About Your Flight Schedule (opens the original)
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I've spent enough hours in the cockpit of single engine aircraft to have a healthy respect for weather. Cloud, wind, ice, all the usual suspects. What I hadn't fully reckoned with, until this piece of research landed, is that the sky I fly through is only the thinnest sliver of a much bigger, much more violent weather system, one that starts 150 million km away away on the Sun. A new study out of the University of Surrey's Space Centre has quantified something that's been a nagging concern in av
The Brightened Night Sky Nobody Actually Wanted (opens the original)
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I have spent a good part of my life pointing telescopes upward and trying to persuade people to look up too. So it takes something fairly extraordinary to make me genuinely uneasy about what's coming for the night sky. This does it. A new paper, just accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters, has put hard numbers on a plan that's been rattling around the astronomy community for a while now - a Californian company called Reflect Orbital wants to put giant mirrors in orbit and beam
The Tarantula That Lost Its Fire (opens the original)
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Some of the best science stories start with a puzzle nobody expected. This one begins in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion galaxy sitting about 160,000 light years from us, in a stellar nursery astronomers have nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. Officially it's 30 Doradus, and it's one of the most furious star forming regions anywhere near the Milky Way, packed with thousands of young, massive stars still shrugging off the gas and dust they were born in. Astronomers had a reasonable exp
The Rooms We Build To Survive In, And The Ones We Build To Live In (opens the original)
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What is a home actually for? Not the roof and the walls, but the thing itself, the space you retreat into when everything outside it is hard. I have asked myself that question more than usual this year, sitting with my own grief after losing both my parents, in rooms that were never designed for any of that. So when I came across this new piece of research out of MIT, it landed differently than most. Engineers there have built something called the Human Environment Connection and Interaction Atl
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