Taking out the bins

You may have bought this December issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine because you’ve been given – or you’ve treated yourself to – a new telescope for Christmas. And you may be wondering what to do with

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IT was December 16 in Houston and it was a chilly evening, for Texas. I had a new girlfriend called Molly and I was pretty certain she was the one. We’d been seeing each other for several months, and

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Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

Amazing answers to your curious questions