Carnival of Space #607

Ep. 526: Event Horizon Telescope and the Black Hole at M87
Scientists are Trying to Figure Out Why InSight's "Mole" Can't Dig Any Deeper

The Closest Star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, has a Planet in the Habitable Zone. Life Could be There Right Now

A new study by a team from the Carl Sagan institutes shows how life could survive the harsh radiation on neighboring exoplanets like Proxima b.
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SpaceX Does it Again with Second Retrieval of Falcon Heavy Rocket

This week, SpaceX conducted the first commercial launch of the Falcon Heavy (and second launch overall) and managed to bring all the boosters back, and even the payload fairings!
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Voyager and Pioneer's Grand Tour of the Milky Way

A new study takes a look at where the Voyager and Pioneer probes might one day venture to as they make their way through our galaxy
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Beresheet Crashed.

Space Weather Forecasts can now give Satellites One Whole Day of Warning when a Killer Solar Storm is Inbound

Weekly Space Hangout: Apr 10, 2019 - Dr. Ian O'Neill
Two Solar Eclipses Seen From the Surface of Mars by Curiosity

The Curiosity rover recently witnessed eclipses involving the moons of Phobos and Deimos from the Martian surface.
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It's Finally here. The First Ever Image of a Black Hole

SOFIA Follows the Sulfur for Clues on Stellar Evolution

A high-flying space telescope is shedding light on where some of the basic building blocks for life may have originated from. A recent study led by astronomers currently at the University of Hawaii, including collaborators from the University of California Davis, Johns-Hopkins University, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Appalachian State University, and several international partners, including funding from NASA, looked at a lingering mystery in planet formation: the chemical pathway of the element sulfur, with implications for its role in the formation of planets and life.
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The World's Glaciers are Down by 9 Trillion Tonnes of Ice in the Last Half Century

Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Have Had Volcanoes of Molten Iron

Messier 83 - the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

Located in the direction of the Hydra constellation, over 15 million light years from Earth, is the barred spiral galaxy known as Messier 83.
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Hayabusa2 Fires an Anti-Tank Warhead at Asteroid Ryugu

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently struck the asteroid Ryugu with an explosive payload, which will help it collect samples that could teach us more about how the Solar System and life came to be.
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Ep. 525: 100 Years of the International Astronomical Union
Now We Know That Dark Matter Isn't Primordial Black Holes

A new study by an international team of scientists has tested Hawking's theory of dark matter, and ruled out that it is not likely to be made up of tiny black holes.
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Mars Express Saw the Same Methane Spike that Curiosity Detected from the Surface of Mars
