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This is the View You Get Staring out of the Space Station's Cupola Module
It Looks Like Firefighters Saved Mt. Wilson Observatory
Thanks to the heroic efforts of firefighters, the Mt. Wilson Observatory is now safe from the California wildfires raging through the region.
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How Much Life Would Be Required to Create the Phosphine Signal on Venus?
Artemis Missions Should Bring Ice Home From the Moon Too
In a recent white paper, a team of scientists proposed that NASA's Artemis astronauts should also bring back samples of lunar ice to determine where the Moon's water comes from
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Design for a Space Habitat With Artificial Gravity That Could Be Grown Larger Over Time to Fit More People
Searching for Phosphorus in Other Stars
The Space Court Foundation is Now in Session!
The Space Court Foundation hopes to play a pivotal role in the evolving domain of space law, which is going to become very important in the coming years!
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James Webb Will Look for Signs of Life on Planets Orbiting Dead Stars
Weekly Space Hangout: September 16, 2020 – Dr. Merav Opher Discusses the Shape of the Sun's Heliosphere
Astronomers Measure a 1-billion Tesla Magnetic Field on the Surface of a Neutron Star
Colliding Neutron Stars Don't Make Enough Gold to Explain What We See in the Universe
Much of the gold we find on Earth was created by colliding neutron stars, but astronomers now know gold must also be formed elsewhere.
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Check Out How Big the Planets and the Moon Will be in Our Sky Over the Next Two Years
Thousands Saw a UFO in New Jersey. It was the Goodyear Blimp
Missions Are Already Being Planned to Figure Out What's Creating the Biosignature on Venus
Uranus' Moons are Surprisingly Similar to Dwarf Planets in the Kuiper Belt
Sunrises Across the Solar System
NASA Will Pay You to Retrieve Regolith and Rocks from the Moon
NASA is offering to pay commercial contractors to retrieve lunar regolith and rocks to demonstrate their ability to harvest resources on the Moon
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Astronomers Have Discovered a 2-km Asteroid Orbiting Closer to the Sun than Venus
The Milky Way is Already Starting to Digest the Magellanic Clouds, Starting With Their Protective Halos of Hot Gas
Extreme galaxies depend on extreme conditions for their formation
A beautiful picture of Saturn's heavily-cratered moon Mimas, processed by @kevinmgill
The SpaceX Starship Could be Making its Biggest Hop Yet (and a Belly-Flop) Next Month!
Elon Musk and SpaceX appear to be gearing up for a high-altitude hop test with the SN8 before the end of October!
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Did Scientists Just Find Signs of Life on Venus?
Small Amounts of Dark Matter are Creating Much Stronger Gravitational Distortions than Anyone Expected to See
Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold.
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Australian Telescope Just Scanned 10 million Stars For Any Sign of Extraterrestrial Signals. No sign.
An Update on the Damage to the Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory suffered some serious damage last month, but an assessment and investigation is underway and repairs will follow!
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China's New Reusable Spaceplane Lands After 2 Days in Space
China's mysterious reusable spaceplane recently launched and has returned to Earth after spending two days in space.
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Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" IX: What is the Brief Window Hypothesis?
In this latest installment in our Fermi series, we take a look at the possibility that advanced civilizations only have a brief window within which to communicate.
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Vera Rubin's Monster 3200-Megapixel Camera Takes its First Picture (in the Lab)
China is Building a Floating Spaceport for Rocket Launches
China is almost finished its floating spaceport in the Yellow Sea, which will begin making regular launches and servicing rockets in the near future!
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A Sunspot, Revealed in Incredible Detail by Europe's Newly Upgraded GREGOR Telescope
Jupiter Probably Has 600 Small, Irregular Moons
Finally! A Solution to Deal With Sticky Lunar Dust
Weekly Space Hangout: September 9, 2020 – Dr. Katie Mack Discusses "The End of Everything"
Bennu is Constantly Getting Sandblasted by Tiny Meteoroids
Could There Be a Form of Life Inside Stars?
A new study proposes that alien life could evolve from nuclear interactions rather than atomic ones.
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Behold! The Black Hole Collision Calculator!
A new tool called the Black Hole Collision Calculator let's users see just how powerful a collision between a black hole and any other celestial object would be.
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Earth's Oxygen Could be Making the Moon Rust
Can you tell the difference between California, Venus, Titan and Mars? Hint: California is the one with buildings.
Rosetta's Philae Lander Was Alive on the Surface of 67P for 63 Hours, Trying to Communicate
The Strange, Misshapen Orbits of Planet-Forming Disks in a Triple-Star System
There are Three Asteroids Hiding in this Animation, See If You Can Find Them
Astro-Challenge: Adventures in Daytime Astronomy
It's one of the stranger observations in ancient literature.
A curious account comes to us by the 1st century AD Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, concerning the exploits of Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who notes that:
"The Sun's radiance makes the fix'd stars invisible in the daytime, although they are shining as much as in the night, which becomes manifest at a solar eclipse and also when the star is reflected in a very deep well."
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Okay, New Idea. Oumuamua is an Interstellar "Dust Bunny"
Nancy Roman Telescope's Primary 2.4-Meter Mirror is Ready
Gravitational waves could show what's happening inside a star as it's going supernova
New Simulation Shows Exactly What Dark Matter Would Look Like If We Could See It
A detailed simulation of dark matter finds that dark matter haloes form in a wide range of sizes.
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Neptune & Triton - August 31, 1989.
SpaceX's Starship Prototype Nails Another Hop Test! Bring on Orbital Flights!
SpaceX has nailed the hop test once again and the Starship is on its way toward making high-altitude flights and trips to space!
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Some Quasars Actually Contain Two Supermassive Black Holes in the Process of Merging
Astronomers have found a powerful quasar powered by two supermassive black holes.
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