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Space & Cosmos
Northern Lights: How the Northern Lights Captivated People in the 18th Century
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Since May this year, the Northern Lights have been visible further south than usual over the UK, causing surprise and fascination. Social media is abuzz with images of skies glowing with green, pink and red light. We now know that these lights occur during magnetic storms. This is when charged subatomic particles, primarily electrons, collide with…
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Space & Cosmos
Hubble Space Telescope Lights the Way with New Multiwavelength Images of Galaxy NGC 1559
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 1559. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, W. Yuan, J. Li, the PHANGS-HST team, A. Rees, K. Takacz, D. de Martin, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) The spectacular galaxy seen in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy located about 35 million…
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