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01/24/2020 04:34 PM
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Giant Planets Could Form Around Tiny Stars in Just a Few Thousand Years
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A new study has shown how gas giants (like Proxima c) can exist around Red Dwarf suns, the most common type of star in the Universe
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01/24/2020 03:47 PM
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OSIRIS-REx Flew 620 Meters Above its Landing Site. Confirms that it’s a Boulder-Strewn Nightmare, Just Like the Rest of Bennu
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu), on December 3rd, 2018. Since then, the spacecraft has been examining the asteroid’s surface, looking for a suitable landing spot to collect a sample. The problem is, Bennu has a much rockier and challenging surface than initially thought. OSIRIS-REx’s (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, …
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01/24/2020 11:31 AM
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A Glitch Caused Curiosity to Freeze in Place. But It’s Better Now
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Article updated at 3:40 pm CST, 1/24/20. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover experienced a technical glitch last week, causing it to temporarily lose its sense of direction and freeze in its tracks. But the talented rover repair team back on Earth enabled a fix, and Curiosity is now back in action. “We believe this was a …
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01/23/2020 05:04 PM
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This is Probably Sandstone Layers on Mars. Absolutely Beautiful
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been in orbit around Mars for almost 14 years. It carries a variety of instruments with it, including the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument. That instrument has collected thousands of images of Mars. CRISM’s main purpose is to created detailed maps of the surface mineralogy of …
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01/23/2020 04:58 PM
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Finally! We get to See a View From Inside Boeing’s Starliner During its First Flight
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Boeing has released a highlight reel made from footage that was taken from the inside of the Starliner capsule during its recent test flight.
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01/23/2020 03:18 PM
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Rosetta Saw the Building Blocks of Life on Comet 67P
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Why is there so little nitrogen in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P)? That’s a question scientists asked themselves when they looked at the data from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. In fact, it’s a question they ask themselves every time they measure the gases in a comet’s coma. When Rosetta visited the comet in 2014, it measured the …
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01/22/2020 04:31 PM
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The Evidence is Leaning More and More Towards an Asteroid Ending the Dinosaurs
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Which camp are you in: volcanoes? Or asteroids? When it comes to the extinction of the dinosaurs, science has whittled it down to those two possibilities. The asteroid strike has been the leading candidate for quite some time now, but those darn volcanoes refuse to stand down. A new study is presenting even more evidence …
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01/22/2020 02:47 PM
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Carnival of Space #647
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This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #647. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry …
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01/22/2020 02:12 PM
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Betelgeuse is Continuing to Dim! It’s Down to 1.506 Magnitude
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Betelgeuse keeps getting dimmer and everyone is wondering what exactly that means. The star will go supernova at the end of its life, but that’s not projected to happen for tens of thousands of years or so. So what’s causing the dimming? Villanova University astronomers Edward Guinan and Richard Wasatonic were the first to report …
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01/22/2020 01:55 PM
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Weekly Space Hangout: January 22, 2020 – Dr. Kenneth Carpenter of HST and WFIRST
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Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Allen Versfeld (https://www.urban-astronomer.com/ / @uastronomer) Carolyn Collins Petersen (TheSpaceWriter.com / @spacewriter) Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck) This week we welcome Dr. Kenneth Carpenter to the Weekly Space Hangout. Ken is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Operations Project Scientist and the Ground System Scientist for WFIRST. He leads the Stellar Imager Vision Mission concept development, and provides …
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