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Hubble is the Ultimate Multitasker: Discovering Asteroids While it's Doing Other Observations
Uranus' Rings are Surprisingly Bright in Thermal Emissions
New observations by ALMA and the VLT provide the most-detailed look yet at Uranus' system of rings, revealing things about their temperature and particle distribution
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Messier 88 - the NGC 4501 Spiral Galaxy
Located in the Coma Berenices constellation, about 50 to 60 million light-years from Earth, is the spiral galaxy known as Messier 88
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NASA Model Shows Greenland's Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over the Next 1000 Years, Raising Sea Levels by 7 Meters
Deep Space Atomic Clocks Will Help Spacecraft Answer, with Incredible Precision, if They're There Yet
Enceladus is Filled with Tasty Food for Bacteria
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
Breakthrough Listen has just released their latest analysis of the past three years of their SETI research, as well as all the info they collected in that time
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Stunning Image Shows How Saturn's Tiny Moon Sculpts the Planet's Rings
Two Earth-Like Worlds Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Only 12.5 Light-Years Away
The CARMENES project has detected two more Earth-like planets that orbit a red dwarf star just 12.5 light years away
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Competition Will Let You Name an Exoplanet
The Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies Ever Found
This is the Closest OSIRIS-REx has Gotten to Bennu. Just 680 Meters Above the Asteroid
New Ideas to Reduce Muscle Loss During Spaceflight
Carnival of Space #616
Weekly Space Hangout: June 19, 2019 - Corey Gray, Lead Operator at the LIGO Hanford Observatory
Martian Clouds Might Start with Meteor Trails Through the Atmosphere
Ep. 534: Modern South African Astronomy
Inflatable Heat Shield Could Deliver Heavy Payloads to Worlds With a Thick Atmosphere
NASA is testing out a new inflatable heat shield which could enable them to send heavier missions to Mars, as well as Venus and Titan.
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Earth has a Water Cycle. Mars has a Dust Cycle
Satellites Equipped With a Tether Would be Able to De-Orbit Themselves at the end of Their Life
A new technology that allows satellites to de-orbit themselves at the end of their lives could help mitigate the problem of space debris.
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Robotic asteroid mining spacecraft wins a grant from NASA
This year, the NASA's NIAC Program is looking at some really interesting ideas - such as a water-powered, laser-shooting, asteroid-mining spacecraft!
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Saltwater Similar to the Earth's Oceans has been Seen on Europa. Another Good Reason Why We Really Need to Visit This Place
In Order to Reveal Planets Around Another star, a Starshade Needs to Fly 40,000 km Away from a Telescope, Aligned Within Only 1 Meter
If NASA sends a Starshade into space, it will need to perform some very accurate formation flying with the space telescopes it is working with
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An Orbit Map of the Solar System
Ceres is a Strange Place, Including a Volcanic Peak 4,000 Meters High Made From Bubbling Salt Water, Mud and Rock
Mimas Pushes Through Saturn's Rings Like a Snowplow
Weekly Space Hangout: June 12, 2019 - Mike Simmons of Astronomers Without Borders and Nancy Atkinson talks Apollo 11
Apollo 10's "Snoopy" Lunar Lander May Have Been Found in Space
1.2 billion years ago, a 1-km asteroid smashed into Scotland
New research by a team of UK scientists has located the site of the massive impact that took place in Scotland 1.2 billion years ago.
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It's Been Exactly One Year Since Opportunity Sent This Final Message Home - on its 5,111th Martian Day
New Instrument is Searching for Planets Around Alpha Centauri
That Explains a Lot. The Moon's Largest Crater has a Chunk of Metal Embedded in it That's 5 Times Bigger than the Big Island of Hawaii
Ep. 533: Indigenous South African Astronomy
Perfect Example of a Barred Spiral Galaxy, Seen Face On. This is What Our Milky Way Might Look Like
Messier 87 - the Virgo A Supergiant Galaxy
Located in the Virgo constellation, roughly 53.5 million light years from Earth, is the supergiant galaxy known as Messier 87 (Virgo A)
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New observations from the Planck mission don't resolve anomalies like the CMB "cold spot"
A new analysis of Planck mission data has provided no new insights into the anomalies it detected, leaving the door open for wild theories!
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Carnival of Space #615
Black Hole Simulation Solves a Mystery About Their Accretion Disks
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists have validated an age-old theory about how accretion disks behave.
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You Can Use a Live Webcam to Watch NASA Build the Mars 2020 Rover
The Japanese asteroid-hunter had another photo opportunity when it dropped a target marker on asteroid Ryugu
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft just launched its second target marker to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
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Don't Worry About Asteroid 2006QV89. There's Only a 1 in 7000 Chance It'll Hit the Earth in September
Europe is Working On a Reusable Space Transport System: Space Rider
There's a Ring of Cool Gas Wrapped Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
A double asteroid came uncomfortably close this weekend. Here's what astronomers saw
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO scientists took some stunningly clear images of a double asteroid that recently swung by Earth.
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Engineers are Still Troubleshooting Why Mars InSight's Mole is Stuck and Won't Go Any Deeper
Astronomers See an Enormous Coronal Mass Ejection... On Another Star!
Astronomers See Adorable Baby Planets Forming Around a Young Star
Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot Vanishing as We Near Opposition 2019?
Jupiter observation season is neigh, and with it, the largest planet in our solar system is as mysterious as ever.
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Weekly Space Hangout: June 5, 2019 - Jean Wright, NASA's Seamstress to the Stars
How Will NASA and ESA Handle Mars Samples When They Get Them Back to Earth?
