Building magrathea

I’m responding to an article by Pete Lawrence in the April 2025 issue, titled ‘Flora crosses the Leo Triplet’ (Big Three, in the Sky Guide), which spurred me to have a look for this minor planet. I al

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I’d never fitted in… then I realised I wasn’t even from this planet!

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Ten years ago, Pluto emerged from the gloom at the Solar System’s ragged edge – and a new world came in from the cold. Five billion kilometres (3 billion miles) from Earth, on 14 July 2015, NASA’s pia

The world’s biggest digital camera telescope has started ...