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06/22/2021 10:26 AM
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China and Russia Announce their Future Plans for the Moon, Including a Human Base
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China and Russia have released a Guide that details their plans for a lunar base that will rival NASA's, and they are looking for countries to join them!
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06/22/2021 09:53 AM
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Astrobiologists Detect a Signature of Life Remotely. Don’t get too Excited, Though, it was With a Helicopter Here on Earth
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Chirality is a word normally found in biological textbooks that will occasionally pop up in the astronomy community, usually when discussing potential biosignatures. Typically the term is explained by analogy with left and right hands – how the molecules are curved in one specific way or another, similarly to how human hands are formed either …
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06/22/2021 07:01 AM
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Teeny Tiny Space Telescope has Taken Thousands of Pictures of Both Earth and Space
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A new nanosat has been quietly snapping over 4500 pictures of the Earth and the sky after its launch on May 15th. Rocketed into orbit on a Falcon 9, the nanosat, known as GEOStare2, actually contains two different telescopes – one focuses on a wide field of view while the other has a much narrower …
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06/22/2021 06:40 AM
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Space Telescopes Could Provide Next-Level Images of Black Hole Event Horizons
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Back in 2019, the world was treated to the first ever image of a black hole, which was originally captured in 2017. The feat was widely heralded as a leap forward for astrophysics, supporting Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Now a team led by the Radboud University proposes sending instruments into space to estimate black hole …
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06/21/2021 11:30 AM
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Supermassive Black Hole Winds Were Already Blowing Less Than a Billion Years After the Big Bang
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New evidence shows that black holes and galaxies have a significant effect on each other in young galaxies.
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06/21/2021 11:07 AM
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Juno Captured This Image of Earth on its Way Out to Jupiter Back in 2013
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Since the Juno spacecraft has been in orbit around Jupiter for nearly five years — since July 4, 2016 — you may have forgotten about that time back in 2013 Juno flew past Earth. The spacecraft needed a little extra boost to reach Jupiter, so it used Earth for a gravity assist. Image editor Kevin …
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06/21/2021 04:28 AM
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Astronomers saw the Same Supernova Three Times Thanks to Gravitational Lensing. And in Twenty Years They Think They’ll see it one More Time
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It is hard for humans to wrap their heads around the fact that there are galaxies so far away that the light coming from them can be warped in a way that they actually experience a type of time delay. But that is exactly what is happening with extreme forms of gravitational lensing, such as …
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06/19/2021 08:28 PM
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Astronomers Find a Blinking Star Near the Center of the Milky Way
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In this week’s edition of new unexplained astronomical phenomena, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Leigh Smith from Cambridge found a star 100 times larger than our sun that nearly disappears from the sky every few decades. They also have no idea why it does so. The star, called VVV-WIT-08, is located 25,000 light …
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06/19/2021 08:08 PM
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Apollo 17 Astronauts Brought Home Samples From the Oldest Impact Crater on the Moon
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Internal geological processes on the moon are almost non-existent. However, when it gets smacked by a space rock, its surface can change dramatically. Debris from that impact can also travel over large distances, transplanting material from one impact site hundreds of kilometers away, where it can remain untouched in its inert environment for billions of …
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06/18/2021 04:57 PM
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A New Technique for “Seeing” Exoplanet Surfaces Based on the Content of their Atmospheres
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A new study takes a look at how the presence of a surface can affect an exoplanets atmosphere, giving astrobiologists a way to study exoplanet surfaces without having to "see" them directly.
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