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11 Aug 2014:Astronomers and amateur skywatchers excited as perigee moon and comet Swift-Tuttle appear together for dazzling skies
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11 Aug 2014: The spectacular sight of hundreds of shooting stars streaking across the sky might be obscured by the supermoon this year. But you can improve your chances of seeing it, says Nishad Karim
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11 Aug 2014:
The supermoon lit up skies across the world on Sunday – share your pictures of the perigee moon
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11 Aug 2014:
Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi argues that Aristotle laid the foundations of modern science. Plus, the Ebola outbreak; Rosetta's rendezvous with a comet; and taking aspirin to prevent cancer
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7 Aug 2014:
Alan Pickup on the possibility of damage to Mars-orbiting spacecraft by a close encounter with comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring
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6 Aug 2014:
Stuart Clark: Rosetta has arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. One of the most audacious space missions in decades, it is designed to reveal clues to the origins of the solar system, our home planet and life itself
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6 Aug 2014: European Space Agency probe brought to within 100km of comet travelling at 55,000km per hour, where it will begin analysis
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6 Aug 2014:
A CGI video shows the Rosetta space probe orbiting a comet while the Philae lander collects samples on the surface
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6 Aug 2014:
European probe due to catch up with oddly-shaped comet 67P/CG on Wednesday and prepare to make history by going into orbit around it
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6 Aug 2014:
The European Rosetta probe will come within 100km of the strangely-shaped 'rubber-duck' comet and prepare for a first in space history as the craft goes into orbit around it
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5 Aug 2014:
Launched 10 years ago, Rosetta is a tiny unmanned craft sent deep into space to study the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Having finally caught up with the rubber duck-shaped comet it will start orbiting it before dropping a probe onto its surface
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24 Jul 2014:
Alan Pickup follows the fortunes of Europe's Rosetta spacecraft as it closes in on the comet that's been likened to a rubber duck
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19 Jul 2014: European probe Rosetta will close in on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko next month and its analysis could reveal whether comets brought Earth its water and amino acids, writes Robin McKie
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26 Jun 2014: Alan Pickup tracks the European Space Agency craft as it pursues its icy target on a headlong dive into the Sun
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21 Jan 2014:
Cheers erupt in the control room of the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany
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