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New Horizon’s latest photos of Pluto: ‘This part acts like a lava lamp’
The historic mission sent Nasa its highest-resolution images Thursday of dwarf planet’s Sputnik Planum, a region of pitted plains and a strange ‘X’ formation.
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The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
If you fell into a black hole, you might expect to die instantly. But in fact your fate would be far stranger than that.
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The lost tunnels buried deep beneath the UK
A vast network of 200-year-old tunnels lies beneath Liverpool’s streets – and no one knows why they’re there.
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Risk of comet hitting Earth is greater than previously thought, say researchers
Monitoring of space objects should include giant ‘centaurs’ that could rain down debris for thousands of years, astronomers recommend.
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New type of moon rock discovered by Chinese lunar lander
The Yutu rover, part of the Chang’e-3 unmanned lunar mission, has identified a type of basalt unlike anything collected by previous Soviet or US missions.
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Postal services? Not so much…
I’m so angry.
This year my family and I have decided not to celebrate Christmas at all. Long story. Only one person outside the family ever gives me Christmas presents and this year too, he had sent me a gift from Amazon.
We recently moved and the post office (not really a post office these days, just a shop, but anyway…) is so far away from were we actually live. It would take me at least half a day to get there and back and sometimes a lot more. So I found out that there’s a way to get stuff sent out to your house. They said they’d send my package the following day so since I wouldn’t be home, I asked my sister to keep an eye and an ear out and open when the mailman knocked on the door. She did sit next to the window on Friday and Monday and no one came.
On Friday evening, until the postal services closed, I was on the phone trying to find out what went wrong, and they were giving me the runaround and eventually hung up on me. Then tonight I find that these morons sent the package back to Amazon, because they couldn’t deliver it.
Why not? How could they not deliver it? My sister was there. No one came to the house. It won’t fit in our mailbox so they couldn’t even have tried to do that, unless they’re even more stupid than I thought they were.
They say our address is incomplete. Really? We can find it alright on the yellow pages online. The trouble is, and this is the postal services’ own fault, that we have an address that is quite similar to another address very close by. Not our fault. So did those morons try to deliver it to the neighbour? Did they just lie and got rid of my package?
This is usually a very nice place. I love it here. Compared to where we lived before, this is heaven. People are very nice. Usually. But clearly not the post office people.
This is why lunar colonies will need to live underground
The coldest parts of Earth come nowhere close to the freezing temperatures of the lunar night – and building a base that can withstand them will not be easy.
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Explanation for Ceres’ mystery bright spots
Scientists think they can now explain the mysterious bright spots on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Enceladus: Does this moon hold a second genesis of life?
The Cassini probe is about to bid farewell to Enceladus, the small moon of Saturn that many scientists now regard as the most likely place to find life beyond Earth. We have to go back to study this bright white world in more detail.
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New Horizons: Sharpest images of Pluto’s surface – BBC News
The New Horizons probe has at last returned some of the super-sharp pictures it took of Pluto during its historic flyby in July.
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