Ireland will pay €14.6m over the next decade to allow members of the Irish science community access to the world’s best space observatory — and hopes to secure multiples of that amount in return through Irish firms tendering to work on the project.

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This startling image shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way.

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AN ancient galaxy has entered the record books after being confirmed as the most distant object in the universe.