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Professor Anu Ojha at The Royal Institution uses a string wrapped around a globe to visualize the Moon’s distance—about 10 Earth circumferences away—making the vast scale more intuitive than numbers alone. The demonstration puts the Earth‑Moon gap in perspective against the ISS’s 400 km orbit and notes that Venus would be even farther, highlighting the challenges of interplanetary travel and tying the lesson to Artemis II’s Moon flyby.
Prince Harry accused Associated Newspapers Ltd of "criminality" for allegedly obtaining his private information through illegal means and using it in news stories. He also called out the royal institution for withholding information from him to prevent legal action from being taken amid the News Group Newspapers (NGN) phone hacking scandal back in the early aughts. Harry is suing Associated Newspapers Ltd in England's High Court over alleged unlawful practices used to gather information, including phone tapping.