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• NAACAL: Declining Aral Sea: Satellite Images Highlight Dramatic Retreat

  New Envisat images highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea’s shoreline from 2006 to 2009. The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-la...

• NAACAL: 21 amazing pictures of the Sun

  The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minumum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - wit...

• NAACAL: 50 Years of Space Exploration

  An amazing zoomable poster on 50 years of space exploration has been published by National Geographic. Check it out here

• NAACAL: Mystery Behind the Most Massive Objects in Space Solved

  "Blobs" might sound as scientific as an astrologer at a NASCAR rally, but it's a real astrophysical term - in fact, it's a giant one. Blobs ...

• NAACAL: Microscopes zoom in on molecules at last

  Thanks to specialised microscopes, we have long been able to see the beauty of single atoms. But strange though it might seem, imaging large...

• NAACAL: Complex organic molecules detected in interstellar space

  Two of the most complex molecules ever found outside the solar system have been turned up by astronomers peering into Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2...