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Rivers on Mars Flowed for More Than a Billion Years
Ep. 524: Judging Age & Origins, part 3 - Beyond Our System
SpaceX Releases a New Render of What the All-Steel Starship Will Look Like Returning to Earth
SpaceX has released an impressive new image that shows its proposed Starship reentering the atmosphere of Earth.
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Weekly Space Hangout: March 27, 2019 - Dr. Amanda Hendrix, Director of NASA's TREX
Maybe Self-Replicating Robot Probes are Destroying Each Other. That's Why We Don't See Them
A new study takes a look at the Fermi Paradox by considering the possibility that alien von Neumann probes could be devouring themselves.
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Carnival of Space #604
Asteroid Bennu has Already Thrown Material off into Space 11 Times Since OSIRIS-REx Arrived
The OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed some interesting things about the asteroid Bennu, which includes the 11 plumes it witnessed in the past 3 months.
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Ep. 523: Judging Age & Origins, Pt. 2 Across the Solar System
Messier 82 - the Cigar Galaxy
Located in the vicinity Ursa Major constellation, roughly 12 million light years from Earth, is the starburst galaxy known as the Messier 82 (aka. the Cigar Galaxy).
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Pulsar Seen Speeding Away From the Supernova That Created it
Recent observations have revealed a pulsar that appears to have been accelerated by the very supernova explosion that created it.
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LIGO Just Got a Big Upgrade, Will Begin Searching for Gravitational Waves Again on April 1st
After undergoing upgrades, the LIGO observatory will be going back online this April, with "almost daily" detections of gravitational wave events expected.
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The Incredible Challenge of Landing Heavy Payloads On Mars
Weekly Space Hangout: March 20, 2019 - Dr. Michael Zemcov of NASA's SPHEREx Mission
Six People Have Begun a 122-Day Simulated Mission on the Moon
The SIRIUS-19 experiment recently kicked off, with six cosmonauts entering a simulated lunar environment (where they will spend the next 122 days conducting experiments).
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Almost 13,000 Years Ago, a Comet Impact Set Everything on Fire
A new discovery in South America has added further weight to the Young Dryas Impact theory, which states that a sudden shift in its climate 12,800 years ago was due to a comet hitting Earth.
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SpaceX Tests the Starship's Hexagonal Heatshield. Starhopper Tests Could Come as Early as This Week
Spot Failed Soviet Venus Probe Kosmos 482 in Earth Orbit
Messier 81 - the Bode Galaxy
Astronomy Cast Bonus Episode: Dust with Dr. Paul Sutter
Astronomy Cast Ep. 522: Judging Age & Origins, part 1 - Earth Rocks
Carnival of Space #603
Which Habitable Zones are the Best to Actually Search for Life?
A new study conducted by an international team of scientists examines what the term "habitable zone" means and how next-generation telescopes will test our assumptions.
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SLS Rocket Promises To Do Better
The SLS rocket found its future launch manifest severely curtailed in a new budget request. This leaves the long overdue rocket with uncertain long term prospects.
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Progress for the Skylon. Europe agrees to continue working on the air-breathing SABRE engine
The ESA and Reaction Engines recently took another step towards the realization of the hypersonic SABRE engine.
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Do You See the "Cosmic Bat" in NGC 1788?
This Star has been Kicked Out of the Milky Way. It Knows What It Did.
The Iridium Flare Era is About to End
Fast-forward to 2019, and the age of the predictable Iridium flare may be coming to an end. Already, scrolling through Heavens-Above reveals very few Iridium flares for the coming months, and these familiar nighttime flashes may become a thing of the past come 2020.
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This is the Final Photograph from Opportunity
Weekly Space Hangout: Mar 13, 2019 - Dr. Luisa Rebull, Spitzer, and Star Formation
This is What It'll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide Billions of Years from Now
China's Lunar Rover Wakes Up and Gets to Work for its 3rd Lunar Day
Using Black Holes to Conquer Space: The Halo Drive!
According to a new study, black holes could be used as a gravitational slingshot, allowing for interstellar space exploration.
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Carnival of Space #602
Jupiter or Earth? Which One's Which, and Why Do They Look so Similar?
Now You Can See MU69 in Thrilling 3D
The New Horizons team has released new images that take advantage of the "binocular effect" to create 3D impressions of Ultima Thule.
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A Newer, More Accurate Measurement Sets the Mass of the Milky Way at 1.5 Trillion Solar Masses
Astronomy Cast Ep. 521: The Deep Space Network
Messier 80 - the NGC 6093 Globular Cluster
Located in the Scorpius constellation, roughly 32,600 light years from Earth, is the globular cluster known as Messier 80.
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Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don't
Pluto and Charon Don't Have Enough Small Craters
The New Horizons team just shared new findings about the lack of small craters on Pluto and Charon's surface, which reveal things about the Kuiper Belt.
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It Took 10 Years to Confirm the First Planet Ever Found by Kepler
Ho-Hum. More Boring Success for SpaceX as Crew Dragon Splashes Down
This is an Actual Photograph of the Shock Waves from Supersonic Jets Interacting with Each Other
Weekly Space Hangout: Mar 06, 2019 - Dr. Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute
You're in This Picture. It's a Selfie Taken by SpaceIL's Beresheet Lunar Lander on its Way to the Moon
Gamma Ray Telescopes could Detect Starships Powered by Black Hole
A new study has proposed ways to search for advanced alien life by looking for the gamma rays produced by a black hole spacecraft
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Sorry Hollywood, it's Going to Take a Lot More to Destroy an Asteroid
A new study from John Hopkins University has shown that blowing up asteroids might be harder than we thought.
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InSight's Rock-hammer is About Half a Meter Down and has Already Run into Rocks.
Astronomy Cast Ep. 520: Transients: What They Are and Why They Matter Part 2
Carnival of Space #601