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Dr Stephen Wolfram is proposing that he may have discovered a fundamental theory of Physics, could be the unified theory we’ve been waiting for? https://bit.ly/3aBwQQ8

Could NASA be planning a massive telescope on the Moon? NASA have put a proposal together to put a telescope into a crater on the far side of the Moon. https://bit.ly/2VGbX1N

Although we generally tend to avoid this topic there’s sometimes no escaping it! So how has COVID-19 impacted the world of professional astronomy? Professional astronomy has always been an innovative field and it looks like it has risen to the challenge again https://bit.ly/3bKgeXH

After the discovery of Oumuamua, an alien asteroid in our Solar System in 2017, a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society talks about the discovery of other interstellar asteroids that never left our Solar System https://cnn.it/3eWVG0c

The evil twin to Earth, the clouds of Venus have long enthralled astronomer’s and how they formed. In the early formation of the Solar System, Earth and Venus would have looked very similar, what mechanism changed this? This article looks at how our understanding in this areas has changed over the last two decades https://bit.ly/3aJEAj8

An exoplanet has been discovered in the archived Kepler data, what makes this one even more interesting is that it is an Earth-sized planet found in the habitable zone of Kepler-1649. This is the most Earth-similar planet discovered by Kepler https://bit.ly/2y1X3Kg

Observations of the star, S2, around the black hole Sagittarius A* has demonstrated further evidence that supports the theory of general relativity – first proposed by Einstein. The movement of S2 demonstrates Schwarzchild precession, which means that it orbits around the black hole in rosette-like loops https://bit.ly/2zvBIt3

To celebrate Hubble’s 30th anniversary, Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 took a magnificent image of the “Cosmic Reef”. The image of NGC 2014 and NGC 2020, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud https://bit.ly/2y3w4OB

A nova is a huge explosion in the night sky and until now, astronomers had never observed one from start to finish. Due to them being impossible to predict, it is challenging to get telescope time to study them – especially as the waiting list for top telescopes is extremely long and every scientist will judge their research to be important. The use of BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer) a collection of nanosatellites were fortunate to observe this nova from start to finish https://bit.ly/3aH6Bb3