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There's Now a Gas Station... In Space!
A new startup has created the world's first gas station in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will extend the lives of all of the satellites that will be going to space very soon!
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The Milky Way Hasn't Been Evenly Mixed
Researchers Create the Most Powerful Magnet Ever Made on Earth: 20 Teslas
Researchers Generate an Entire Virtual Universe and Make it Available for Download (if you Have 100 Terabytes of Free Hard Drive Space)
You could fit an entire simulated universe in your pocket, if you have $40,000 to spare.
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In Addition to Gravitational Waves, is There any way to Detect Merging Black Holes
ALMA's new Receivers Will let it see Longer Wavelengths, Peering Closer to the Beginning of the Universe
Why are Rubble Pile Asteroids Shaped Like Diamonds?
There Should be More Material Left Over From Bombardment Eras. Maybe the Sun Blew it all Away?
Astronomers Create 3D Printed Nebulae
Perseverance Drills Another Hole, and This Time the Sample is Intact
After failing in its first try, the Perseverance rover just successfully obtained a rock sample from the Martian surface that will someday be brought back to Earth.
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White Dwarfs can Continue Burning Hydrogen, Even After They're Dead
Protoplanetary Disks Throw Out More Material Than Gets Turned Into Planets
Space Continues to be Hard. Firefly's Alpha Rocket Detonates Shortly After Launch
Ground-Based Observatories Could use Starshades to see Planets too
This is a 3D-Printed Steel Floor Prototype for a Lunar Habitat
The ESA's has unveiled a key piece of their proposed lunar habitat, a 3D-printed steel floor frame.
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NASA has too Many Spacecraft to Communicate With. Time to Build More Dishes
Pencil December 18th (tentatively) into your calendar. That's when James Webb probably launches
What Formed the Strange Troughs on Vesta?
A Flurry of Fall Binocular Comets
Fall 2021 offers up an all-night parade of challenging telescopic comets.
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