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The cost of everything is UP and the tiny things that bring us a moment of joy is DOWN | First Dog on the Moon
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (62+ words) The Guardian The cost of everything is UP and the tiny things that bring us a moment of joy is DOWN A recent survey shows folk are increasingly miffed. Is the fair go gone? Was it ever?...
Blue Origin rocket, owned by Jeff Bezos, explodes during test in Florida
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (285+ words) No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’ A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during a test in Florida on Thursday, an incident which the aerospace company called an…...
Do look up: stargazing in New Zealand’s first dark sky community
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (479+ words) It took 10 years for Naseby to achieve its DarkSky International certification. Now, a night out in the tiny Otago town is like ‘a tour through the history of the universe’ There are more than 200 dark sky places designated by DarkSky…...
Experience: I am the best lightsaber fighter in Europe
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (667+ words) Some people wear elaborate clothes and spin their sabers like in the movies, but if you fight theatrically you’ll lose I grew up in the suburbs around Paris and started fencing when I was five. I kept it up until…...
Rare comet to flash through New Zealand skies – before it disappears for 170,000 years
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (352+ words) Over the next two weeks stargazers have a chance to spot the blue-green orb and smudgy tail of comet known as C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS A comet formed on the edges of the solar system will grace southern skies over the next…...
Everything you need to know about Artemis II so far – podcast
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (352+ words) This week Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew broke Apollo 13’s distance record, becoming the humans to travel the farthest from Earth. Now on their way home, the team has experienced tech malfunctions, views like no other and moments of intense emotion,…...
Humans are en route to the moon for the first time in 54 years – and Australia’s Dish is tracking them
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (953+ words) The Murriyang radio telescope in Parkes, NSW broadcast the moon landing in 1969 and is now observing the Artemis II lunar mission On the day of the Apollo moon landing, 21 July 1969, wind gusts of up to 110km/h buffeted the Parkes radio…...
Blast off! Nasa goes back to the moon – podcast
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (149+ words) Astronaut Tim Peake and Guardian journalist Richard Luscombe talk through Artemis II, the first manned mission to the moon for 50 years This week, for the first time in 50 years, Nasa is sending people to the moon once more. And though…...
Astronomers aim to take ‘revolutionary’ moving image of black hole
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (546+ words) Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude Dark, hungry and inescapable: black holes are often portrayed as the ultimate cosmic villains. But now astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a…...
Wilfred Buck review – rewarding life of Indigenous American astronomer laid out in the stars
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (682+ words) This hybrid documentary about the Cree astronomer offers evocative, poetic insight into a formidable community leaderFor Cree astronomer Wilfred Buck, the stars hold an immense power that extends beyond the realm of science. Coming from an Indigenous group whose stories…...