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Looking up at the Milky Way

Stargazers of the world unite: how seeing the Milky Way in a clear, unpolluted sky can change your life

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Having grown up in the industrial West Riding of Yorkshire, I was 22 when I first saw the Milky Way. It wasn’t my fault; there was too much light pollution. In places such as this, you may think that on a moonless and cloudless night you can see the stars

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Fermi’s paradox: does the lack of contact from extraterrestrials have implications for human survival?

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“Where is everybody?” Enrico Fermi is supposed to have asked in 1950 of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Working from first principles, Fermi calculated that extraterrestrials should have visited the Earth long ago, and many times over

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