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A spectacular new image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been created from data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Deconstructed takes you to the basics of everyday objects by taking them apart and explaining how they work. Who never wondered how a toilet flushes or how a car battery works?

Nasa is charged with spotting most of the asteroids that pose a threat to Earth.The space agency was charged with finding 90 per cent of the potentially deadly rocks hurtling through space by 2020. However, Nasa has not received the funding needed to build the necessary telescopes.

Man doesn't look at the stars in awe and wonderment anymore. The observatories where light is collected are now run by robots that neither dirty the instruments nor take night-time naps. Does it matter? Some of the astronomers think it does....

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data in 2004. It is the deepest image of the universe ever taken, looking back approximately 13 billion years.

Showing 10,000 galaxies, the overwhelming Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most amazing, most humbling image in history, demonstrating how tiny and precious we are. This video explains how it was taken, and shows it in three dimensions.

From anyplace on Earth, the clearest thing in the night sky is usually the moon. Ancient cultures revered the moon. It represented gods and goddesses in various mythologies -- the ancient Greeks called it "Artemis" and "Selene," while the Romans referred to it as "Luna."

Ces incendies, qui ont dévasté quelque 3 000 hectares et détruit une cinquantaine de maisons, se sont déclenchés le 31 juillet et ont causé l’évacuation d’environ 4 000 personnes hors de chez eux tandis que plus de 600 pompiers venus de toute l’Espagne s’efforçaient de contrôler le brasier.

Il n’a pas fait tomber de poids du haut de la tour de Pise mais ses nombreuses expériences de laboratoire l’ont conduit à la découverte de la loi de la chute des corps. Il n’a pas inventé la lunette d’observation mais l’a perfectionnée et utilisée à de nouvelles fins.

L'Espagne inaugure vendredi le plus grand téléscope optique-infrarouge du monde. Le GTC est capable de produire de meilleures images du cosmos que celles des télescopes spatiaux comme Hubble.