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A Single Filament of Gas Has Been Discovered That Stretches 50 Million Light-Years
Astronomy 2021: Top Events for the Coming Year
Eclipses, meteor showers, occultations and more.
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A Very Interesting Radio Signal was Just Detected Coming from Proxima Centauri
If a Planet Has a Lot of Methane in its Atmosphere, Life is the Most Likely Cause
A Proposal for a Neutrino Detection Array Spanning 200,000 Square Kilometers
A Canadian Astronaut Will be on Artemis 2, Making it the Second Nation to Send Humans Into Deep Space (but not Walk on the Moon)
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have announced that a Canadian astronaut will fly as part of the Artemis II mission.
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If Axions Explain Dark Matter, it Could be Possible to Detect Them Nearby Neutron Stars
Astronomers look for dark matter in the radio signals of neutron stars. If found it could solve two problems in fundamental physics.
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NASA Announces its Artemis Astronauts: 18 People Training to Fly to the Moon
NASA has announced the names of the 18 astronauts that make up the Artemis Team. A select few, and some international partners, will be going back to the Moon!
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China's Planning to Launch a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory in the 2030s: TianQin. Here's how it'll Stack up Against LISA
This galaxy took only 500 million years to form
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XIV: What is the Aurora Hypothesis?
Is it possible that we haven't heard from aliens because colonizing exoplanets is hazardous to your health? So says the Aurora Hypothesis!
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Radio Emissions Have Been Detected from an Exoplanet
The European Extremely Large Telescope Just Got a 10% Budget Boost, Now Costing $1.5 Billion
Here are NASA's Science Priorities for the Artemis Missions
NASA has released the Artemis III Science Definition Team Report, which defines the science operations that the "first woman and next man" will conduct on the Moon in 2024.
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Here's Chang'e-5, Seen From Lunar Orbit
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show where the Chang'e-5 mission landed. The samples obtained by this lander were recently returned to Earth.
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Pictures are coming in from Solar Orbiter
The Kilonova-Chasing Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer is About to be Watching the Whole Sky
A Real River Valley on Mars, Filled With Virtual Water by @Kevinmgill
Visual artist Kevin M. Gill's latest creation is an image of what Hypanis valles (an ancient river channel) on Mars would have looked like with water flowing through it.
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A new Type of Atomic Clock Uses Entangled Atoms. At Most, it Would be off by 100 Milliseconds Since the Beginning of the Universe
Scientists have made a clock so accurate you wouldn't have to reset it for billions of years.
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Chuck Yeager, the First Man to Break the Sound Barrier has Died. He was 97
On Dec. 7th, 2020, legendary aviator Chuck Yeager died in hospital at the age of 97. He leaves behind a wife, three children, and a mountain of accomplishments!
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Astronomers Have Found Planet 9... in Another Solar System
Weekly Space Hangout: December 16, 2020 – John Powell Tells Us About PongSats and Airship to Orbit
China's Chang'e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission
Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors Should be Able to see the Primordial Waves From the Big Bang
Underneath all the gravitational waves we see are faint primordial waves. If we can detect them, it could change our understanding of the cosmos.
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Attention Astronauts. Fresh Radishes Are Now On the Menu
A second set of even larger bubbles has been found blasting out of the Milky Way's center
A Galaxy is Making New Stars Faster Than its Black Hole Can Starve Them for Fuel
Gravitational interactions can drive comets and asteroids from Jupiter out to Neptune in just 10 years
The RAVN-X is a new Autonomous Aircraft Designed to Launch Small Satellites
The latest addition to the NewSpace industry is the Aevum RAVN-X, an automonous aircraft that can air-launch satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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We're About to Find Out How Well Biomining Works in Space
You Can See the Spot Where Lava Broke Through the Wall of a Martian Crater and Began Filling it Up
Catch an Awe-Inspiring Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21st
The solar system's two massive gas giant planets pair up at dusk on December 21st, with a rare conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.
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If We Used the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Telescope, This is What a Planet at Proxima Centauri Would Look Like
A recent study shows how the Sun could be used as a gravitational lens to take direct images of nearby exoplanets - like Proxima b!
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SpaceShipTwo's First Powered Test Flight Since Move to New Mexico Fizzles Out
Is There a way to Detect Strange Quark Stars, Even Though They Look Almost Exactly Like White Dwarfs?
If quark matter stars exist, they could look like white dwarfs that are unusually small.
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Comet Records From 1240 Accurately Date When a Byzantine Princess Died
Why 2020 is a Great Year for the Geminid Meteors
Got clear skies? Then bundle up: the Geminid meteors—one of the best, sure-fire annual meteor showers—peaks this weekend… and near a New Moon, to boot.
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Black Holes Gain new Powers When They Spin Fast Enough
Fast spinning black holes could have features different from those predicted by general relativity.
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That's no Asteroid, it's a Rocket Booster
Follow-up observations by NASA scientists has confirmed that the mystery object 2020 SO is indeed a relic of the early Space Age.
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Weekly Space Hangout: December 9, 2020 – Casey Dreier: Are Changes Coming to NASA/US Space Policy?
SpaceX's SN8 Starship Soars and Belly-Flops, but Fails to Stick the Landing. Oh Well, Bring on the SN9!
SpaceX launched the SN8 Starship prototype early today and while it failed to stick the landing, the flight was an overall success!
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Heard of Mini-Neptunes and gas-Dwarfs? Here's a new one: sub-Earths
A new study suggests that planets smaller than Earth form much later than large planets, which could point to a rare Earth.
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A Company is Hoping to Race Rovers on the Moon
You're Going to Need a Bigger Drill. The Best Place for Life on Mars is Deep, Deep Underground
New research has indicated that subterranean lakes could exist on Mars thanks to geothermal heating, which is where any life there could be found today.
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Glycine Can Form In Interstellar Clouds
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XIII: What is the "Ocean Worlds" Hypothesis?
Could it be that we haven't heard from any aliens because theyre mainly space whales living live inside icy bodies with interior oceans?
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Iceberg A-68A is Turning. Will it Miss South Georgia Island After All?
It Took 50 Nights of Observations to Capture New Data on the Magellanic Clouds
A Sunspot Seen by the Most Powerful Solar Telescope in the World
20 Years of Hubble Photos Show how the Stingray Nebula is Fading
