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In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! It’s easy to measure your interest in today’s topic: the astronomical unit! Measuring distances on Earth is pretty easy using units like kilometers or miles. Your nearest town might be a few kilometers away. A long-distance flight will cover thousands of … Continue reading "Astronomy Jargon 101: Astronomical Unit"

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Today I found out it is actually quite safe to fly through an asteroid field. The reality is that the asteroids in asteroid fields are incredibly far apart and most of the objects in these fields are very tiny. There are generally hundreds of thousands of miles between these objects and most of them are no bigger than a tennis [...]

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A study in Nature Astronomy has published details of the discovery that the asteroid belt it was examining actually contained fragments of planets — the findings are significant as they could help us understand more about the evolution of our own planet.

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