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Beautiful and incredible space happenings

The solar eclipse: summer 2017

Solar eclipse: 'I'm shaking, this is incredible'

Solar eclipse 2017: "I'm shaking, this is incredible"

The end of Cassini's mission

Cassini: The dramatic finale to a 20-year space mission

As Cassini runs out of fuel, it may be about to send its most dramatic pictures ever

A supersonic 'freefall jump'

The man who jumped from space

Alan Eustace broke the world record for the highest altitude freefall jump in 2014.

Stardust, moonrises and the Milky Way

Winning space photos

Space photographer David Malin has held a competition to inspire other astrophotographers

Watching the birth of stars

Seeing the birth of stars

See stars and planets being born through the eyes of the world's largest radio telescope

... and the explosion that signals their death

Supernova explosion captured by telescopes

Unique recording of gamma ray burst as dying star becomes black hole.

The probes that toured the solar system

Voyager 1 at 40: An epic tour of the solar system

The spacecrafts that have taught us about the Solar System and interstellar space