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To 15 Years Of World Of Warcraft, And All The Pups I’ve Loved Before
This coming weekend, on November 23, the Warcraft franchise marks some significant birthdays. Not only is it 25 years since changing video games forever. For me, it’s also been about… dogs?
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NASA’s New Exoplanet Hunter Releases Incredible First Image
On the way to its final orbit around Earth, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has sailed by the moon and snapped its first picture of space. We’ve said several times that TESS would be able to look at 200,000 stars in the 300 light-years around the Earth – but maybe this new shot…
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Watch An Artist Instantly Create A Mirror With Liquid Silver Nitrate
Video: Although mirrors have been around for thousands of years, a German chemist named Justus von Liebig made a breakthrough that would make the modern manufacture of them possible. Add some sugar to ammoniated silver nitrate, pour it onto glass, and blammo: You have yourself a mirror.
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Why Is This Quasar Running Away From Such A Handsome Galaxy?
We don’t understand quasars all that well, but are pretty certain that these incredibly bright lights belong in the centres of galaxies. So it looked a little weird when astronomers spotted quasar 3C 186 36 thousand light years away from the centre of its galaxy, seemingly trying to escape.