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How the Rosetta space probe brings a distant comet into vivid focus
In 2004, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent the Rosetta space probe to explore the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, located beyond the asteroid belt, more than five times the Earth’s distance from the Sun. In 2014, the orbiter finally reached the comet, and a lander touched down on its nucleus – a first in human history – where it briefly gathered data before losing battery power. In this video, the Austrian filmmaker and photographer Christian Stangl pays tribute to Rosetta’s historic journey, digitally enhancing some of the 400,000 images released by ESA after the mission to create a remarkably vivid and visceral tour of the alien astral body.
Director: Christian Stangl
Composer: Wolfgang Stangl
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Earth science and climate
There’s a ‘climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare?
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Physics
To change the way you see the Moon, view it from the Sun’s perspective
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Ecology and environmental sciences
GPS tracking reveals stunning insights into the patterns of migratory birds
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Space exploration
The rarely told story of the fruit flies, primates and canines that preceded us in space
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Neuroscience
This intricate map of a fruit fly brain could signal a revolution in neuroscience
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Computing and artificial intelligence
The ‘cloud’ requires heaps of energy to stay aloft. Could synthetic DNA be the answer?
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Biology
Brilliant dots of colour form exquisite patterns in this close-up of butterfly wings
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Genetics
Why it took a century to work out that humans interbred with Neanderthals
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Evolution
How – and how not – to think about the role randomness plays in evolution
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