Milky Way spiral arms may stretch further into space than previously known, according to astronomers who used Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray telescope data to measure dust clouds.

NASA has launched a robotic mission to try to prevent one of its ageing telescopes from burning up in the atmosphere in a complicated operation expected to last several months. Northrop Grumman launched the Link spacecraft - built by United States-based Katalyst Space Technologies - from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean on Friday. Initially scheduled for Tuesday, the robot's launch was postponed due to weather, then technical issues. Blast-off happened on Friday at 0836 GMT from an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The unprecedented $30m effort involves sending a robot to rescue the Swift space telescope that is falling towards Earth.

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