United Kingdom Science News API

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            "title": "Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury",
            "description": "Most people would say Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that stays closest to Earth is Mercury. The claim comes from a 2019 commentary in Physics Today by Tom Stockman, Gabriel Monroe and Samuel Cordner, and it has a tidy, faintly irritating quality: it is correct, and it […]",
            "content": "Most people would say Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that stays closest to Earth is Mercury. The claim comes from a 2019 commentary in Physics Today by Tom Stockman, Gabriel Monroe and Samu... [3590 chars]",
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            "title": "Supermassive black holes are pointing jets of plasma directly at Earth - and a population of them may have produced the highest-energy neutrino ever recorded",
            "description": "At the centre of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole. When that black hole is actively consuming surrounding material, it becomes what astronomers call an active galactic nucleus. The infalling matter forms a disc, heats to extreme temperatures, and generates powerful jets of plasma that fire outward from the poles at close to […]",
            "content": "At the centre of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole. When that black hole is actively consuming surrounding material, it becomes what astronomers call an active galactic nucleus. The infalling matter forms a disc, heats to extreme tem... [9521 chars]",
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            "title": "Astronomers might have decoded a mysterious signal from space",
            "description": "Something in the universe is sending powerful, regular bursts towards Earth – and now researchers think they have decoded what it is",
            "content": "Scientists think they might have decoded the origin of some of the most mysterious and powerful signals coming from space.\nResearchers have long been puzzled by “long-period radio transients”, which send out regular powerful blasts of radio waves and... [1651 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/space/cosmic-signal-star-white-dwarf-b2987364.html",
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