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“Project Hail Mary” showcases stunning nebula photos taken over 400 hours by one astronomer – here’s the story

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A bearded man wearing a cap and dark T-shirt is shown holding a red telescope and smiling at the camera in front of a nebula painting hanging on the wall.

In August 2024, astronaut Rod Prazeres received a mysterious message on Instagram that seemed too good to be true – a “small production company” wanted to license his images for use in an undisclosed sci-fi film. Fun‘ at first – and rightly so – he thought he was being scammed. After all, how many production … Read more

The war in the Middle East made the case for renewal – what happens in each country tells a more complicated story.

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A large farm seen from the air, including a group of buildings with solar panels on their roofs.

A world dependent on oil is in crisis. Shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of the world’s marine oil trade and a fifth of the world’s natural gas flows – has come to a standstill! Oil prices rose, briefly reaching $119 a barrel. The largest release of … Read more