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The Solar System’s ‘Yearbook’ is About to Get Filled In
Lined up like familiar faces in your high school yearbook, here are images of the 33 largest objects in the…
Dawn Captures Best Images Ever of “Hipster Planet” Ceres
This is the second animation from Dawn this year showing Ceres rotating, and at 43 pixels across the images are officially the…
Weekly Space Hangout – Jan. 23, 2015: SpaceX, Rosetta, and Asteroid Updates!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com) (more…)
First Hubble and Now Dawn Have Seen This White Spot on Ceres. What is it?
There’s a big white spot on Ceres and we don’t know what it is. We’ve known about the white spot…
Here’s Ceres Compared to All the Other Asteroids We’ve Visited
When the Dawn mission was in its planning stages, Ceres was considered an asteroid. But in 2006, a year before…
Here’s Dawn’s Best View of Ceres Yet
Just sit back and watch the world turn… or should I say, watch the dwarf planet turn in this fascinating animation…
It Looks Like These Are All the Bright Kuiper Belt Objects We’ll Ever Find
The self-professed “Pluto Killer” is at it again. Dr. Michael Brown is now reminiscing about the good old days when…
Surprise! Asteroid Crashes And Raindrop Splashes Look Almost Alike
It's hard to study what an asteroid impact does real-time as you'd need to be looking at the right spot…
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Best Space Photos Of 2014 Bring You Across The Solar System
Feel like visiting a dwarf planet today? How about a comet or the planet Mars? Luckily for us, there are…
2015: NASA’s Year of the Dwarf Planet
Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…