Universe Today
Another Beautiful Image of Jupiter from Juno During a Flyby. Great Work by Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran
Scientists Figure Out How to Continuously Watch the Entire Planet With Just 4 Satellites
A new study has shown that optimal global satellite coverage can be achieved with just four satellites, and in a very cost-effective way.
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Beautiful Image of Ice at Mars' Northern Polar Cap
A Second Planet May Have been Found Orbiting Proxima Centauri! And it's a Super Earth.
It Takes Two Stars to Make a Gamma Ray Burst
A new study by researchers from the University of Warwick shows how Gamma Ray Bursts can only occur with binary systems.
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Underwater Robot Captures its First Sample 500 Meters Below the Surface of the Ocean
Weekly Space Hangout: January 15, 2020 - Dr Erin Explains the Universe
LightSail 2 is Still Solar Sailing, But it's Getting Lower and Lower with Each Orbit
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Balloon-Based Cosmic Ray Observatory is Now on its Second Trip Around Antarctica
The SuperTIGER-2 flight just completed its second tour around Antarctica in its mission to determine the origin and nature of cosmic rays.
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New View of the Swan Nebula From NASA's Airborne SOFIA Telescope
Using the SOFIA telescope, a team of NASA astronomers have conducted the most detailed survey of the interior of the Swan Nebula to date.
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Almost 800,000 Years Ago, an Enormous Meteorite Struck Earth. Now We Know Where.
In About 3 Million Years, WASP-12b Will Spiral into its Star and be Consumed
A new study led by Princeton researchers has confirmed that in the long run, hot Jupiters are destined to be devoured by their suns.
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Hubble Finds Teeny Tiny Clumps of Dark Matter
Using data from Hubble and the gravitational lensing technique, a team of astronomers have found definitive evidence that Dark Matter is indeed "cold".
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There's a new method to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, but it doesn't resolve the Crisis in Cosmology
The Perfect Stars to Search for Life On Their Planets
TESS Finds a Planet That Orbits Two Stars
An Upcoming Impact With the Magellanic Clouds is Already Causing Star Formation in the Milky Way
A new study presented at the 235th meeting of the AAS this week shows how star formation is already happening thanks to the expected collision between the Milky Way and the LMC.
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A Huge Wave is Passing Through the Milky Way Unleashing New Stellar Nurseries
Chang'e-4 Wraps Up a Year Roving on the Far Side of the Moon
During its 370 days on the lunar surface, China's Yutu 2 rover has broken multiple records - including distance traveled and total time spent on the surface.
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TESS Finds its First Earth-Sized World in the Habitable Zone of a Star
Weekly Space Hangout: January 8, 2020 - Dr. Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning, The Secure World Foundation
Forget Betelgeuse, the Star V Sagittae Should Go Nova Within this Century
This Simulation Shows what We'll be Able to See with WFIRST
NASA has given us a taste of what the WFIRST will be able to see when it takes to space, previewing what the power of 100 Hubbles will look like.
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New Research Casts A Shadow On The Existence Of Dark Energy
Our Guide to this Friday's Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Ready for the first lunar eclipse of the year? The first eclipse season of 2020 comes to an end Friday, with a penumbral lunar eclipse. This season overlaps with 2019, when it kicked off with the Boxing Day annular solar eclipse of December 26th, 2019.
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M87's Black Hole is Firing Out Jets that Travel 99% the Speed of Light
Astronomers See the Farthest Galaxy Group Ever Found, When the Universe was Only 5% of its Current Age
Using data from multiple telescopes, an international team of astronomers has identified the most distant galaxy group to date - a find which that reveal a great deal about the early Universe.
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Hubble Captured a Photo of This Huge Spiral Galaxy, 2.5 Times Bigger than the Milky Way With 10 Times the Stars
This is the Core of the Milky Way, Seen in Infrared, Revealing Features Normally Hidden by Gas and Dust
The Moon's Magnetosphere Used to be Twice as Strong as the Earth's
A new MIT-led study has shown how the Moon once had a more powerful magnetic field than Earth and why it was lost over time.
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The Surprising Possibility That There are Still Active Volcanoes on Venus
According to new research by a team from the LPI, it appears likely that Venus could indeed have active volcanoes on its surface today.
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It's Snowing Iron Near the Earth's Core
New research by a team of geophysicists has revealed that "snow" could be a regular feature in Earth's core region.
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"Super-Puff" Exoplanets Aren't Like Anything We've Got in the Solar System
A new study by a team led from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has discovered a rare and unique class of exoplanet that has the density of cotton candy.
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Spaceflight Stories Expected for 2020
The year 2020 is expected to be an exciting one for space exploration. Here are the top stories that are expected to take place
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Top Astronomical Events for 2020
Ready for another amazing year of sky watching? Hard to believe, were already a fifth of the way into the 21st century. 2020 rounds out the final year of the second decade, promising an amazing year of skywatching to come.
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Halo Around a Pulsar could Explain Why We See Antimatter Coming from Space
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Our Guide to the December 26th Annular 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse
Black Holes Were Already Feasting Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang
Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers observed gas clouds that in the early Universe that could explain how supermassive black holes formed so quickly.
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Starliner Launches But it Can't Reach the Station
Astronomers Discovered a New Kind of Explosion That the Sun Can Do
Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a team of scientists have discovered a new type of solar phenomenon that could lead to breakthroughs in space weather prediction and fusion technology.
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Mars 2020 Takes a Test Drive
100,000 Supernovae Exploded Near the Core of the Milky Way
Using data from the GALACICNUCLEUS survey, a team of astronomers has determined that star formation occurred in massive bursts in our galaxy, not continuously over time.
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ESA's CHEOPS Just Launched. We're About to Learn a LOT More About Exoplanets
Without a Magnetosphere, Planets Orbiting Flare Stars Don't Stand a Chance
Will Blanpain Perform? Comet Prospects for 2020
next bright comet? You're not alone. Though we've had a steady string of decent binocular comets over the past few years, we haven't had a good naked eye comet since W3 Lovejoy beat death during its blistering perihelion passage in 2011. But this survivor turned out to be bashful, headed for southern hemisphere skies… Comet P1 McNaught followed suit in 2007, hiding from northern hemisphere observers. And we all remember what happened to Comet S1 ISON—touted as the next great 'Comet of the Century' on Thanksgiving Day 2013. Here it is almost 2020, and you have to go allll the way back nearly a quarter of a century to Comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake to remember just how brilliant a good naked eye comet can be.
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Cool Photo of Canadarm2 With its Dextre Hand. Oh and the Earth. That's Nice Too.
