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In about 1.3 million years, the star system Gliese 710 is set to pass directly through our Oort Cloud, an event visualized in a dramatic scene in Encounters in the Milky Way. During its flyby, our systems will swap icy comets, flinging some out on new paths.

Space

�鶹��ý recommends a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium

The books, TV, games and more that �鶹��ý staff have enjoyed this week

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Brixham UK. 09-19-23.Agatha Christie's book, Miss Marple's final cases. A murder mystery story.

Chemistry

Killer new book uncovers Agatha Christie's knowledge of toxicology

Culture

El Eternauta. Ricardo Dar??n as Juan Salvo in El Eternauta. Cr. Mariano Landet / Netflix ??2025

Comment

This stunning post-apocalyptic drama is the one you should be watching

Culture

WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

Physics

Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

Culture

Block of flats Description Block of flats during night time with many figures in the windows and symmetrical staircase on both sides lit in green

Society

A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

Culture

A sunflower (flos slois major) Basilius Besler, Hortus Eystettensis. Altdorf, 1613. Courtesy British Library

Life

�鶹��ý recommends the British Library’s Unearthed exhibition

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

Culture

Astronaut Sally Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the Flight Deck. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. (Credit: NASA)

Space

Life of first US woman in space Sally Ride makes a moving documentary

Culture

Tutankhamun London: The Immersive Experience Pres Images

Humans

�鶹��ý recommends Tutankhamun: The immersive exhibition

Culture

Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

Physics

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be

Culture

Mathematics

Why exploring "equality" in a new maths book may help the real world

Culture

Comment

Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

Culture

Life

From Chelsea to the British Library, garden shows are blooming

Culture

Technology

How the new Murderbot TV series made me a reluctant convert

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