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SpaceX to Launch 64 Satellites, Including Orbital Reflector
A unique smallsat mission promises to be the latest satellite "brighter than a Full Moon!" in the sky... or not.
The Mission: We're talking about Orbital Reflector, conceived by Trevor Paglen and fielded by the Nevada Museum of Arts.
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Strange Grooves on Phobos Were Caused by Boulders Rolling Around on its Surface
The Power of the Wobble: Finding Exoplanets in the Shifting of Starlight
Astronomers Finally Spot the Type of Star That Leads to Type 1C Supernovae
Thanks to a recently-observed supernova in a distant galaxy, astronomers have been able to find what type of star leads to a Type Ic supernova.
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Carnival of Space #587
Chinese Fusion Experiment Reaches 100 Million Degrees
Scientists at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor set a new temperature record by super-heating plasma to six times the heat of the Sun!
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Huge Asteroid Impact Crater Found Just Under the Ice in Greenland
Lunar Outpost Shows off their New Rover that will Crawl the Moon, Searching for Resources
Super Earth Planet Found Around One of the Closest Stars to us. But it's Probably a Terrible Place to Live
The Red Dots and CARMENES projects recently announced the discovery of a super-Earth around Barnard's Star, making it the second-closest exoplanet to Earth.
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New Comet V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto Takes Observers by Surprise
You just never know when it comes to comets. Here it is, mid-November, and we'd thought we had finished up writing about bright comets for 2018. That was, until this past weekend, when a flurry of messages flashed across the Yahoo! Comets mailing list hinting that a new, possibly bright comet had been discovered. Come Monday morning November 12th, long period Comet C/2018 V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto was formally added to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet list.
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SpaceX Gives More Details on how their Starlink Internet Service Will Work. Less Satellites, Lower Orbit, Shorter Transmission times, Shorter Lifespans
Professor Mark Handley of University College London has created a simulation that demonstrates how SpaceX's space-based internet (Starlink) will work.
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So Cool! Japanese Space Research Center will be Suspended Over a Moonlike Crater
Going 1 Million Miles per Hour With Advanced Propulsion
Honey, Where's the Space Sperm? It's in Low-Earth Orbit, Dear
Scientists are Using Artificial Intelligence to See Inside Stars Using Sound Waves
ARCHIMEDES: Digging into the ice on Europa with lasers
To explore Europa for signs of life, NASA in investing in a number of technologies, which includes a laser-mining concept known as ARCHIMEDES
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Gaia Spots an Enormous Ghost Galaxy Right Next Door that's Being Dismantled by the Milky Way
An Extremely Rare Gamma Ray Emitting Neutron Star Binary Has Been Found
The VERITAS collaboration recently discovered a binary system with a very high-energy gamma-ray neutron star, the rarest and most extreme known object in the Universe.
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Catching Asteroid 3 Juno at Its Best
Not all oppositions are created equal. This week's target offers a good case in point, as asteroid 3 Juno reaches its most favorable viewing position for the decade.
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Direct Observations of a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light-Years Away
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO astronomers directly observed Beta Pictoris b over the course of four years and created a time-lapse video of its orbit.
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Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 14, 2018: Paul Sutter's "Your Place in The Universe"
Messier 71 - the NGC 6838 Globular Cluster
Carnival of Space #586
Astronomy Cast Ep. 505: Seismology
Not all the Earth's Water Came From Comets
SpaceX is going to build a mini-BFR to launch on a Falcon 9
According to Musk's latest update, SpaceX will be conducting a test flight of their BFR system next year using a miniature version of the spacecraft.
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Ancient Star Found that's Only Slightly Younger than the Universe Itself
Thanks to a team from John Hopkins University, a star was recently discovered that is 13.5 billion years old, almost as old as the Universe itself!
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Mars InSight Lands on November 26th. Here's where it's going to touch down
After careful consideration, NASA has selected the location where the InSight lander will set down and begin surveying the interior of Mars
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That Rectangular Iceberg Took a Long, Hazardous Journey
Carnival of Space #585
Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 7, 2018 - Colin Stuart 's "How to Live in Space"
We Could Build a Powerful Laser and Let Any Civilizations Within 20,000 Light-Years Know We're Here. Although... Should We?
This Star Killed its Companion and is now Escaping the Milky Way
Astronomers Get as Close as They Can to Seeing the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
Thanks to the GRAVITY collaboration, astronomers have made the most detailed observations of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way to date.
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Planetary Scientists Have Chosen a Few Landing Sites for the Mars 2020 Rover
At the fourth Landing Site Workshop in October, NASA held a vote on where the Mars 2020 rover will land once it reaches the Red Planet
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Exoplanets Will Need Both Continents and Oceans to Form Complex Life
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that exoplanets with too much water or too much landmass may not be a good place to look for life.
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 504: Radar, Lidar, and Sonar
An Extremely Large Hole has Been Dug for the Extremely Large Telescope
The ESO has broken ground on the Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world's largest and most-advanced telescope once it is complete in 2024.
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Timelapse Shows the Glowing Wreckage from Supernova 1987a Expanding Outward Over 30 Years
Weekly Space Hangout: Oct 31, 2018 - David Dickinson
It's Over For Kepler. The Most Successful Planet Hunter Ever Built is Finally out of Fuel and Has Just Been Shut Down.
After eight years of service and thousands of exoplanet discoveries, the Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired.
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This is What Icebergs Look Like at the End of Their Lives. This One's 18 Years Old
Parker Solar Probe Became the Closest Thing We've Ever Sent to the Sun. And it's Just Getting Started.
Yes! Hubble is Back in Operation
After a malfunction with one of its gyros placed it in safe mode, NASA has announced that Hubble is now back online!
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Carnival of Space #584
Could 'Oumuamua Be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail?
A new study by researchers from the CfA offers a compelling explanation for 'Oumuamua strange appearance and behavior - could it be an interstellar solar sail sent by aliens?
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Comet 46P Wirtanen Rounds Out 2018
One. More. Comet. Though the next great 'Comet of the Century' has yet to make its appearance in 2018, we've had a steady stream of binocular comets this year, including Comets C/2017 S3 PanSTARRS, 38P Stephan-Oterma, and 21P Giacobini-Zinner.
Now, the calendar year may have saved the best for last, as periodic Comet 46P Wirtanen takes center stage.
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Scary Giant Blue Stars May Unlock Mysteries of Stellar Evolution
Virgin Orbit Shows off its "Launcher One", a Rocket Carried by an Airplane
