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A new image of the centre of the Milky Way has been revealed by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Australia.
The radio telescope has produced an image which ranges in colours from red to blue, with the huge golden filaments indicating enormous magnetic fields.
Supernova remnants - the gaseous expanses left behind after stars explode -
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Write comment (95 Comments)Thousands of passengers face delays as British Airways experiences disruption to flights caused by a "technical issue".
The airline said overnight that a small number of planes were affected by the glitch - the latest in a series of PR headaches for the carrier caused by apparent computer system woes and, latterly, damaging strikes by pilots.
It
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Write comment (98 Comments)British backpacker Grace Millane was murdered by a man "seeking total domination and some sort of weird thrill over women who were his sexual partners", a court heard today.
Her killer had then taken "trophy photographs" because of a "morbid interest in a dead woman's genitalia", prosecutor Brian Dickey said.
Mr Dickey was making his closing speech
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Write comment (99 Comments)Sydney residents woke to find their city under a blanket of smoke on Thursday and it is expected to remain at least until Friday.
The smoke is due to around 50 bushfires still burning in the Australian state of New South Wales, affecting the north and central coast and Illawarra as well as Sydney.
A poor air quality forecast alert was issued in the
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Write comment (94 Comments)Israel could be heading towards an unprecedented third election in less than 12 months.
Opposition leader, Benny Gantz - a former general who heads the Blue and White party - has followed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure in October, to form a government.
Gantz announced on Wednesday that he would not meet a midnight deadline, deepening
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Write comment (91 Comments)Modern "hyper realistic" masks can be so convincing that people often can't distinguish them from a real face, say researchers.
The latest masks can cost around £1,000 and experts say they could be increasingly exploited by criminals as a disguise.
In the study, 240 people in Japan and the UK looked at pairs of photos to try to spot which showed a
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