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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?
Carnival of Space #614
NASA is building up a map of the entire sky seen in X-rays, line by line with its NICER experiment
Using data from the first 22 months of the NICER instruments mission, NASA has constructed a beautiful image of what the X-ray sky looks like.
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Subaru Telescope Sees 1800 Supernovae
Rovers on Mars should be searching for rocks that look like pasta - they're almost certainly created by life
According to a new study, future NASA missions to Mars should look for "pasta-like" mineral structures, which are an indication of ancient bacteria here on Earth.
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Ep. 532: Modern Astronomy of Australia
LEGO's New Apollo 11 Lunar Lander has been Released
Phew! James Webb passes its final thermal vacuum test. Still on track for 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope recently completed vacuum chamber testing, and is good to go for its 2021 launch date!
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MOONRISE: Melting lunar regolith with lasers to build structures on the Moon
A team of German scientists have invented a new laser system that could be used to build a lunar base in the near-future.
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The First-Ever Film of a Total Solar Eclipse - in 1900 - was Just Discovered and Restored
Curiosity has Found the Mother Lode of Clay on the Surface of Mars
Why do Some Hubble Images Have That Chunk Taken Out of the Corner?
A Very Rare Planet Discovered. Less Massive than Neptune, Hotter than Mercury. Very Few Should Exist
This is Where Mars 2020 Rover is Heading. From this Picture, I Think You Can Guess Why
Astronomers are Finding Binary Pairs of Stars Thrown out of Galaxies Together
Different Conditions From Earth Drive the Movement of Sand Dunes on Mars
Weekly Space Hangout: May 29, 2019 - Dr. Molly Peeples of the Space Telescope Science Institute
This Strange Feature on Mars was Probably the Result of an Ancient Volcanic Explosion
Carnival of Space #613
NASA's Long-Term Climate Predictions have Proven to be Very Accurate, Within 1/20th of a Degree Celsius
New layers of water ice have been found beneath Mars' North Pole
A new study has found evidence of glacier of water ice beneath Mars' north pole, enough to cover the entire planet in an ocean.
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18 - Yes, 18 - New Earth-sized Exoplanets have been Found in Kepler's Data
Ep. 531: Australian Indigenous Astronomy
Catching a Ride on the Starlink Satellite Train: Midnight Marvel, or Night Sky Menace?
