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Europe’s next big space mission – a telescope that will hunt for Earth-like rocky planets outside of our solar system — is on course to launch at the end of 2026.

PLATO, or PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is being built to find nearby potentially habitable worlds around Sun-like stars that we can examine in detail.

The space telescope will blast into orbit on Europe’s new rocket, Ariane-6, which made its maiden flight last week after being developed at a cost of €4billion (£3.4billion).

Dr David Brown, of the University of Warwick, is giving an update on the mission at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting at t...

The graph depicting the tensor product structure of the binary icosahedral group 2I is the same as the Dynkin diagram of affine E8.

Over centuries, humans have tried to discover a Theory of Everything. Possible candidates eg String Theory and Grand Unified Theory, require higher dimensions or higher-dimensional symmetries, eg 10 dimensions, despite their radical difference from the world we actually experience. One such symmetry – known as E8 – exists in 8 dimensions and is the largest symmetry without counterparts in every dimension and is therefore called exceptional. Now a scientist has constructed E8 for the first time, along with other exceptional 4D symmetries, in the 3D space we inhabit. These exceptional symmetries are essentially 3D phenomena in disguise.

Dr Dechant, who is al...