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• QS world university rankings 2014: physics and astronomy

  11 Sep 2014: The top 100 universities in the world for physics and astronomy, as ranked by higher education data specialists QS

• Eyewitness: Yokohama, Japan

  Picture, 10 Sep 2014:

  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

• The Copernicus Complex by Caleb Scharf review – a cosmic quest

  10 Sep 2014: Tim Radford: Is the Earth really so special, asks the celebrated astrobiologist in this intoxicating study. And what are the chances of life beyond?

• The last supermoon – in pictures

  9 Sep 2014: This full moon marks the third in a trilogy of supermoons this summer, and is also a harvest moon, which rises around the same time that the sun sets, giving the moon a reddened, swollen appearance

• 10 things you should know about the supermoon

  9 Sep 2014: On 9 September the moon may appear 14% larger and 30% brighter as it comes closer than usual to the Earth

• Milky Way is on the outskirts of 'immeasurable heaven' supercluster

  3 Sep 2014:

  Astronomers discover that our galaxy is a suburb of a supercluster of 100,000 large galaxies they have called Laniakea

• Starwatch: The September night sky

  31 Aug 2014:

  Alan Pickup on the constellations and planets to look out for during the coming month

• Rather than desecrate the Arctic should business mine the moon?

  Guardian Professional, 27 Aug 2014: Corporates and governments are joining the race to exploit extraterrestrial resources in the face of dwindling natural capital on Earth

• Chris Hadfield: People talk retirement. Why would you want to do nothing?

  23 Aug 2014: There are no retirement plans, astronaut Chris Hadfield tells <b>Oliver Milman</b> at the Melbourne writers festival

• An anniversary on Mars, the death throes of a galaxy and space lettuce – in pictures

  19 Aug 2014: Our collection of the best space imagery of the summer includes the Curiosity Mars rover, a galaxy that’s going out with a bang, and lettuce grown on the International Space Station

• Jupiter and Venus will align almost completely on Monday night

  15 Aug 2014:

  The closest conjunction of Venus and Jupiter since 2000 will be visible from even fairly low vantage points

• Dust from beyond our solar system fell to Earth from space probe

  14 Aug 2014: Detectors dropped off by the Stardust probe in 2006 carried particles that may have originated in interstellar space

• Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw obituary

  12 Aug 2014:

  Brilliant mathematician with a special interest in magic squares, she served as an educational adviser to Thatcher in the 1980s

• In praise of ... supermoons

  11 Aug 2014: Editorial: There are three perigee moons this year, but this week’s comes closer to the earth than any of the rest

• Perseids meteor shower and supermoon offer divine heavenly show

  11 Aug 2014:

  Astronomers and amateur skywatchers excited as perigee moon and comet Swift-Tuttle appear together for dazzling skies

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