Laika, the first living creature in space, has been celebrated in Russia with her own statue.
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The Universe is 13.73 billion years old
10 things you don’t know about the Milky Way
The Bad Astronomy website has a great story about 10 Things You Didn’t Know about your own galaxy – The Milky Way.
7.6 billion years to go
Researchers at the University of Sussex have worked out the amount of nuclear fuel the Sun has left to burn.
The good news is, we’ve got 7.6 billion years to work out what to do when the Sun goes cold and dark.
GLAST?
GLAST is the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope. It currently has a rubbish name. So NASA are running a competition to decide on a new name.