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The Ring Nebula’s true shape
The Ring Nebula's true shape - revealed in this composite image made in visible light and infrared - is vastly more intricate than astronomers knew.
May 23, 2013
ESO’s Very Large Telescope celebrates 15 years of success
This new picture celebrates an important anniversary for the Very Large Telescope – it is fifteen years since the first light on the first of its four Unit Telescopes, on 25 May 1998.
May 23, 2013
Rare, massive merging of two faraway galaxies
A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory.
May 22, 2013
M5-class solar flare on May 22
The flare produced a beautiful coronal mass ejection, or CME, which was not Earth-directed but could deliver a glancing blow in the next few days.
May 22, 2013
Small, speedy plant-eater extends knowledge of dinosaur ecosystems
A team of paleontologists have described a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada.
May 22, 2013
New insights on climate change and species interactions
Scientists provide important new details on how climate change will affect interactions between species as temperatures continue to rise.
May 22, 2013
Video: Earth’s atmosphere is escaping
It'll be billions of years before it's gone, but this video explains it in two short minutes!
May 22, 2013
Blue bottle fly
They're ubiquitous at this time of the year. Who looks closely at a fly?
May 22, 2013
View from space: Four satellites views of Moore tornado
Four images from space, from NASA and NOAA satellites, of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on May 20, 2013.
May 21, 2013
New method for producing clean hydrogen
Engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications.
May 21, 2013
