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‘One day the romance will come back… We just got used to the idea of people going up through the air and out of this world.’ But the space age was over and also, as the Challenger disaster of 1986 showed, every trip was not the foregone conclusion he thought. … [Read more...] about From the archive: Clive James at the Space Center, 1983

The Milky Way is almost as old as the Universe itself with recently estimates suggestings that the Universe is around 13.7 or 13.8billion years old and the Milky Way is thought to be about 13.6billion years old the Milky Way is disk shaped and measures about 120,000 light years across It has a supermassive black hole in the middle called Sagittarius A* It contains over 200 billion stars It is thought to have an invisible halo made of dark matter … [Read more...] about Space ‘natural disaster’ quasar tsunami can tear apart a whole galaxy with ‘1,000,000,000C heatwave’, scientists reveal