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London, Sept 21 : Ever wonder what a young William Shakespeare would have looked like? Well, according to a police artist, he was a dead ringer for boy wizard Harry Potter.

Metropolitan police artist Cathy Charley used the process of “age procession” to create an image of a young Shakespeare.

With the help of portraits of the playwright, Charley used her knowledge of how faces change over time to create a picture of the Bard while young by going back in time, reports The Sun.

London, Sept 21: Lava flow could have covered features on Mars that appear to have experienced catastrophic flooding, and this could make future landing missions for search of past water on the Red Planet more troublesome, according to a new NASA study.

The results follow the detailed examination for more than three months by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the valley system called Athabasca Valles, which has long been interpreted as having been carved out by sudden, catastrophic flooding.

Washington, Sept 21: Astronomers have found evidence of star formation in a long gas tail extending well outside its parent galaxy.

New Delhi, Sept. 21: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams is a ‘role model’ for Indian children and a source of inspiration for women in the country.

Dr. Singh also said that India feels proud of her achievement, even though she is a citizen of the United States of America.

Congratulating Williams on her unique achievement and her contribution to the human quest for a better understanding of our Universe, Dr. Singh invited her to meet him.

Paris, Sept 21 : The European Space Agency (ESA) has embarked on a ‘Don Quijote’ mission that would chart out the trajectory of small asteroids to see if these rocky bodies are in line with a collision with Earth in the future.

The Don Quijote mission is a project based in two phases.

The first phase will see a spacecraft rendezvous with an asteroid and go into orbit around it. It would monitor the asteroid for several months, precisely determining its position, shape, mass and gravity field.