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How to spot rare green comet in Irish skies as it passes Earth for the first time in 50,000 years

The comet will shoot past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, and may be visible in Irish skies

Irish Mirror

Company behind first ever Welsh satellite 'devastated' after historic Virgin Orbit launch fails

The Virgin Orbit launch was set to make British space history but didn't go to plan

Wales Online

Nasa mission discovers second Earth-size planet that could be habitable

The exoplanet is at just the right distance from its star to possibly contain liquid water

Evening Standard

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Russia to launch mission to rescue stranded ISS crew after meteoroid strike

Space agency mounts rescue mission to bring home two cosmonauts and US astronaut marooned on ISS

The Guardian - UK

Russia to launch new capsule to return space station crew

Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos says it will launch a new spacecraft to take some of the International Space Station’s crew back to Earth after their capsule was damaged and leaked coolant

The Independent UK

Russia to rescue ISS crew on backup rocket after capsule leak

Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule was struck by a micrometeoroid and started leaking last month.

Reuters

Horoscopes today - Russell Grant's star sign forecast for Wednesday, January 11

While a new friendship isn’t looking good for one sign, another grows tired of a boastful workmate. These are the Wednesday horoscopes.

Irish Mirror

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Wednesday briefing: Does failure to launch spell the end of the UK’s space ambitions?

In today’s newsletter: The first rocket mission from the UK didn’t reach orbit, but industry leaders explain why the burgeoning field is ready for liftoff – and what comes next

The Guardian - UK

Best of Interactives 2022

A look back at some of our most popular data-driven stories of 2022.

360info

How to see a comet coming close to Earth

For the next three weeks, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). Here's how

Salon

SpaceX Starlink launch: Elon Musk beefs up the 'megaconstellation'

Elon Musks' Starlink is sending even more internet satellites into its giant low-Earth constellation.

Inverse

"We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard" - Space Forge speaks of UK space race failure

An attempt to make British space history by launching a rocket into orbit from UK soil suffered an “anomaly” during the flight

Birmingham Post

Virgin space launch: What went wrong?

The UK’s first rocket launch ended in failure, but what happened to the Virgin Orbit space launch?

Evening Standard

Virgin Orbit and government investigating why first UK rocket launch failed

The second stage of the launch suffered an “anomaly”, meaning the rocket and its payload was lost.

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Boris Johnson erased from UK minister’s tweet celebrating satellite launch

UK cabinet minister Grant Schapps posts, then promptly deletes, an image in which former prime minister Boris Johnson has been awkwardly photoshopped out of.

Evening Standard

Richard Branson’s wealth drops $100 million after failed Virgin Orbit launch

Shares in the New York-listed firm tumbled 22% after Wall Street markets opened

Birmingham Post

'Space is hard': What comes next for Cornwall's space race and the operators involved

The fact that the first UK space launch ended in failure is not the end of the story - it is just the beginning.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish space sector 'inspired' by Virgin Orbit teams despite launch failure

THE Scottish space industry has been "inspired" by the teams behind the Virgin Orbit launch despite its launch ending in failure,…

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First UK rocket launch fails after 'anomaly' prevents it from reaching orbit

A Virgin Orbit plane, carrying the rocket, took off on Monday night from Cornwall Airport with hundreds of people watching and over 75,000 viewing a live stream

The Guardian - UK

Spot the difference: Boris Johnson appears scrubbed from photo posted by Shapps

Gaping hole mysteriously appears where former PM once stood at UK space mission with business secretary

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson photoshopped out of Grant Shapps spaceport rocket picture

Source close to Shapps says: ‘Grant wasn’t aware anyone had edited the picture’

Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily podcast: UK Space Agency to investigate failed mission

The UK Space Agency is going to investigate what went wrong with Virgin Orbit’s Launcher One rocket, which failed in its mission to send nine satellites into orbit.

The National (Scotland)

Top Tory minister deletes tweet after editing Boris Johnson out of photo

BUSINESS Secretary Grant Shapps has quietly deleted a social media post after it was pointed out that former prime minister Boris Johnson had been…

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson apparently erased from Business Secretary’s tweet

Social media users were quick to notice that the former prime minister appeared to have been digitally erased from a photo tweeted by Grant Shapps.

Inverse

JWST images turn up galaxy-sized sonic booms disrupting gas clouds in distant cluster

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's first color image targets has a turbulent inner life.

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