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An amateur astronomer has captured a series of incredible photos of distant stars, planets and nebulae thousands of light-years away, all from his backyard.  Pictured: A full moon

A father-of-three captures spectacular images of Mars and the Moon using a telescope in his back garden

When you look up at the night sky from your backyard, you might spot a few stars if you’re lucky. But father-of-three James Flanagan wanted a better view and pointed his telescope “in the middle of the road” into space to get a closer look. He has since seen a lunar mountain range, the dusty …

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Max Planck and how the spectacular birth of quantum physics changed the world

Max Planck and how the spectacular birth of quantum physics changed the world

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the birth of quantum physics. We now live in the digital age. The landscape of technological wonders that surrounds us is something we owe to a hundred physicists who, at the dawn of the 20e century, were trying to figure out how atoms worked. They …

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