Reels tagged #astronomy
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Etymology
'Disaster' means bad star
From Italian disastro, it reflects the old belief that misfortune came from unfavourable star alignments.
Astronomy
A telescope that looks back 13 billion years
Infrared space telescopes see light stretched by the expanding universe, revealing galaxies that formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Space
Jupiter's giant storm is shrinking
The Great Red Spot is still wider than Earth, but observations show it has steadily become smaller for more than a century.