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People's Daily - Breathtaking time-lapse of the Milky Way over SW China’s Yunnan: MilkyWay NightSky HaixihaiLake Yunnan TimeLapse Astrophotography Astronomy

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2 days ago2d

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Evan Gough - Recent Supernovae Produced Giant Cavities in the Orion Nebula: Orion OrionNebula Supernova BarnardsLoop Ionization Astrophysics Astronomy

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1 week ago1w

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Matt Williams - The World's Largest Liquid-Mirror Telescope Comes Online: LiquidMetal LiquidMirror Telescope InternationalLiquidMirrorTelescope ILMT DevasthalObservatory Astrophysics Cosmology Astronomy

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1 month ago1m

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Sky & Telescope - NASA’s Mars Insight lander witnessed the largest quake detected on another world at just the right time — as the lander begins to run low on power: Mars Marsquake SeismicExperiment SEIS Insight ...

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1 month ago1m

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Tereza Pultarova - Sun's mysterious pole and a 'solar hedgehog' revealed in closest-ever images of the sun: SolarOrbiter ESA SolarHedgehog MagneticField ExtremeUltravioletImager EUI Ultraviolet SolarFlare CoronalMassEjection ...

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1 month ago1m

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HiRISE - The Caldera of Olympus Mons: Mars OlympusMons Caldera HiRISE PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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May 12May 12

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Matt Williams - Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way: BlackHole SagittariusA SgrA SupermassiveBlackHole SMBH Accretion AccretionDisk EventHorizonTelescope EHT ALMA APEX VLBI Interferometry ...

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May 7May 7

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Nancy Atkinson - This is a Dust Avalanche on Mars: Mars CarbonDioxide CO2 Frost Regolith Avalanche DustAvalanche SlopeStreaks MarsOdyssey THEMIS PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Apr 5Apr 5

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Carolina Avendano - North America’s Cahokia: A Lost City With Cosmic Views: Cahokia CahokiaMounds LostCivilization StairwayToHeaven UNESCO Architecture Astronomy Spirituality Archeology

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Apr 4Apr 4

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Paul Scott Anderson - Background glow of the universe is oddly bright: BackgroundGlow CosmicGlow CosmicOpticalBackground COB NewHorizons LORRI ZodiacalLight Cosmology Astronomy

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Apr 1Apr 1

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SpaceRef - A Closer Look At Utopia Planitia: UtopiaPlanitia StarfleetYards Mars MarsExpress RedPlanet PlanetaryScience Geology Astronomy

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Mar 30Mar 30

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NASA - Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen: Hubble HubbleSpaceTelescope HST Redshift Reionization RELICS GravitationalLensing SunriseArc Earendel Star Cosmology Astronomy

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Mar 30Mar 30

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - Pluto's giant ice volcanos may have formed from multiple eruption events: Pluto NewHorizons Cryovolcanism Volcanism Geomorphology Hummocky HummockyTerrain ...

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Mar 27Mar 27

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Paul Scott Anderson - Asteroid Ryugu harbors life’s building blocks: Asteroid Ryugu Hayabusa2 OrganicCompounds Prebiotic AminoAcids BoundWater LifeOnEarth PlanetaryScience Astrobiology Astronomy

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Mar 27Mar 27

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Sky & Telescope - Hundreds of Thousands of Stars Reveal the Milky Way's Teenage Years: MilkyWay Galaxy StellarEvolution Subgiant StarFormation GaiaEnceladus GalacticMerger AgeDistribution TeenageYears Cosmology ...

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Mar 27Mar 27

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Evan Gough - These are Star Dunes on Mars, Formed When the Wind Comes From Many Different Directions: Mars HiRISE MarsOrbiter MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter MRO Wind Sand Dune StarDune TyrrhenaTerra PlanetaryScience ...

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Mar 23Mar 23

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Xinhua - Chinese astronomers identify a simple rule beneath repeating fast radio bursts: FastRadioBursts FRB Polarization CAS NAOC FAST GreenBank GRB RadioTelescope RadioAstronomy Astronomy

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Mar 18Mar 18

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Brian Koberlein - There are Deposits of Ice at Mercury's Poles too: Arecibo RADAR PlanetaryRadar Mercury Ice PolarIce GreenBank GBT RadioTelescope RadioAstronomy PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Mar 16Mar 16

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Nancy Atkinson - It’s Springtime on Mars, and the Dunes are Defrosting: Mars WaterOnMars CarbonDioxide CO2 Dunes HiRISE MRO MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter KaiserCrater HellasPlanitia MeltingIce SeasonalIce Thawing ...

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Mar 5Mar 5

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Deborah Byrd & Theresa Wiegert - Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are merging: Andromeda MilkyWay Galaxies GalaxyMerger AMIGA AbsorptionMap IonizedGas GalacticHalo Astrophysics Astronomy

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Feb 27Feb 27

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Massimo Luciani - Salts and organic compounds discovered in Urvara crater on the dwarf planet Ceres: Urvara UrvaraCrater Ceres NASA NASADawn Salts Organics Geology Mineralogy Astronomy

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Feb 26Feb 26

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Matt Williams - An Exoplanet is Definitely Orbiting Two Stars: Tatooine StarWars Kepler16 BEBOP Exoplanet PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Feb 24Feb 24

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Matt Williams - Astronomers Detect the Closest Fast Radio Burst Ever Seen: RadioBurst FastRadioBursts FRB M81 WhiteDwarf Magnetar RadioAstronomy Astronomy Astrophysics

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Feb 24Feb 24

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Nancy Atkinson - Chinese Rover Finds Translucent Glass Globules on the Moon: CNSA CAS Yutu Yutu2 LunarRover ChangE4 Glass Globules Moon PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Feb 18Feb 18

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Mike Wall - After a year on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is on course for big discoveries: Mars RedPlanet JezeroCrater Perseverance PerseveranceRover MarsRover MastcamZ SuperCam Ingenuity IngenuityHelicopter ...

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Feb 18Feb 18

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Nancy Atkinson - A Colossal Flare Erupted From the Far Side of the Sun: Sun SolarFlare CME Plasma SolarScience StellarPhysics Physics Astronomy

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Feb 17Feb 17

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Nancy Atkinson - The First Image From NASA’s new X-ray Observatory: Polarimetry IXPE Supernova SupernovaRemnant Cassiopeia CassiopeiaA XRays Chandra NASA Astronomy Cosmology

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Feb 15Feb 15

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Sky & Telescope - A careful study of cosmological simulations shows that dark matter–less galaxies aren’t impossible — just really rare: Galaxy Galaxies ΛCDM DarkMatter ColdDarkMatter CDM AGC4905 Astronomy ...

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Feb 10Feb 10

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SETI Institute - Earth’s Oxygen Rise Helps Search for Life: Oxygen Exoplanet Atmosphere Geology Iron Rocks Ironstones LifeOnMars Mars EarthScience MarineLife JWST SETI Astrobiology PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Feb 9Feb 9

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SpaceRef - Layered Deposits And Wind Ripples On Mars: Mars Ripple Aeolian Ripples Craters Wind Sediment HiRISE PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Feb 8Feb 8

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SpaceRef - Nearly 1,000 Mysterious Strands Revealed In The Milky Way's Center: MilkyWay Galaxy Strands Filaments MagneticFields CosmicRays MeerKAT SARAO Astrophysics Astronomy

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Feb 8Feb 8

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Andy Tomaswick - The First Rogue Black Hole has Been Discovered, and it’s 5,000 Light-Years Away: Microlensing Rogue RogueBlackHole BlackHole Hubble HubbleSpaceTelescope HST Cosmology Astronomy

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Feb 8Feb 8

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Colin Stuart - Astronomers Watch the Making of a Super-Earth: Atmosphere AtmosphericLoss KeckObservatory HubbleSpaceTelescope HST SuperEarth MiniNeptune FultonGap Exoplanet PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Feb 7Feb 7

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Matt Williams - Mars Could Have Been Wet for Much Longer Than Previously Believed: Mars Water WaterOnMars Rain SellersExoplanetEnvironmentsCollaboration SEEC NoachianPeriod HesperianPeriod KaseiValles LifeOnMars ...

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Jan 24Jan 24

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SpaceRef - Widespread Megaripple Activity on Martian North Pole Area: Mars Megaripple Megaripples Wind Climate Sand HiRISE PolarBedforms Atmosphere PlanetaryScience Astronomy

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Jan 11Jan 11

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Wu Yuehui - China’s FAST telescope helps achieve important scientific research results in 2021: CAS FAST RadioTelescope Telescope HINarrowSelfAbsorption HINSA RadioBursts FastRadioBursts FRB FRB121102 Pulsar ...

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Jan 10Jan 10

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European Southern Observatory - Orion’s fireplace - ESO releases new image of the Flame Nebula: Orion ESO FlameNebula Nebula Atacama APEX Hydrogen CarbonMonoxide CO SuperCam Astronomy Photography Astrophotography

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by guru

A lot of thought involved.

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by alexanderrogge

The eerie glow of the deep partial lunar eclipse shone through some thick clouds over Virginia this morning; a cold wind began blowing as the rising Sun began to trade places with the Moon in the sky. LunarEclipse EclipseLunar ...

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Nov 17, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by guru

FBI Discovers Smallpox Vials In Philly Triggering Lockdown, Bill Gates Warns Of Smallpox Attackshttps:

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Oct 17, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by alexanderrogge

The storm clouds cleared over Virginia for International Observe the Moon Night. A Waxing Gibbous Moon followed Jupiter, showing its Galilean moons, and Saturn with its rings and largest moon Titan shining through the windy sky. ...

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Aug 22, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by alexanderrogge

The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn form a triangle in the sky tonight as this FullMoon becomes a Blue Moon. Moon Planets Triangle BlueMoon OnceInABlueMoon BetrayerMoon SturgeonMoon NikiniPoya GreenCornMoon RakshaBandham HungryGhostMoon ...

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Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by GlenGardner20

More for the astronomy enthusiast.

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Aug 11, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by alexanderrogge

Sky & Telescope - Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi Just Blew its Top! RSOphiuchi Ophiuchi RSOph RecurrentNova Nova WhiteDwarf Star RedGiant AccretionDisk RocheLobe Gravity Thermonuclear Explosion Sky Astronomy ...

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Aug 10, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by GlenGardner20

Interesting for those of us into astronomy.

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Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by alexanderrogge

NASA - Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede: Hubble HST Telescope Water WaterVapor Sublimation Ganymede Jupiter Moon AuroralBands Atmosphere Oxygen JUICE JupiterIcyMoonsExplorer Astronomy...

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Jun 3, 2021Jun 2021

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Sky & Telescope Series - Joe Rao on June’s Sunrise Annular Eclipse: Eclipse AnnularEclipse SunriseAnnularEclipse SolarEclipse PathOfAnnularity RingOfFire CrescentSun Eclipse2021 SolarEclipse2021 Astronomy

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May 15, 2021May 2021

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Hanneke Weitering - China's 1st Mars rover 'Zhurong' lands on the Red Planet: CNSA Zhurong ZhurongRover Tianwen1 UtopiaPlanitia Mars2021 MarsRover RedPlanet WaterOnMars PlanetaryScience Geology LASER LifeOnMars ...

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May 9, 2021May 2021

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Nature - Evidence for three-dimensional spin–velocity alignment in a pulsar: Pulsar PSRJ0538 Supernova S147 FAST CAS NAOC NeutronStar SpinVelocityAlignment SpinAxis 3DAlignment Scintillation RadioAstronomy...

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Apr 27, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by alexanderrogge

The Supermoon for April 26, 2021 shines brightly tonight. Uranus, Venus, and Mercury followed the Sun closely into the western sky as the Moon was rising. Mars has now set as the Moon moves to replace the red planet in the western sky until the ...

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Apr 22, 2021Apr 2021

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Space.com - NASA's Perseverance rover makes oxygen on Mars for 1st time: NASA MITBeavers RedPlanet CarbonDioxide PerseveranceRover MOXIE OxygenInSituResourceUtilizationExperiment BreatheEasy SpaceExploration Mars2021 ...

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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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Astronomers Release New All-Sky Map of Milky Way’s Outer Reaches: NASA ESA ArizonaWildcats MilkyWay Galaxy AllSkyMap StarMap GalaxyMerger GalacticHalo Wake DarkMatter DwarfGalaxy Gaia NEOWISE LargeMagellanicCloud LMC ...

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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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Space.com - NASA's Ingenuity helicopter aced an absolutely beautiful flight on Mars: RedPlanet JezeroCrater PerseveranceRover MarsRover MastcamZ PlanetaryScience LifeOnMars SpaceExploration Mars2021 GetToTheChopper ...

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Apr 15, 2021Apr 2021

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Leaves its Mark on Asteroid Bennu: OSIRISREx NearEarthObject NEO TouchAndGo TAG SampleReturn SampleReturnCapsule SRC Rocks Boulders SolarSystem EarthScience NASA GSFC ArizonaWildcats SpaceExploration ...

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Apr 14, 2021Apr 2021

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Nature - Anoxic chemical weathering under a reducing greenhouse on early Mars, by J. Liu, J. R. Michalski, W. Tan, H. He, B. Ye, and L. Xiao: GreatOxidationEvent GOE Geology Mineralogy Spectroscopy Rocks RedPlanet ...

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Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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Astronomers Track a Neutrino Back to the Source, Where a Black Hole Tore Apart a Star: Neutrino BlackHole TidalDisruption Swift IceCubeNeutrinoObservatory XMMNewton VeryLargeArray MeerKAT ZwickyTransientFacility ...

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Mar 4, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by sqeptiq

Bullets sent in envelope to Italy's former prime minister Matteo Renzi

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Jan 30, 2021Jan 2021

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ASASSN-14ko is a Periodic Nuclear Transient in ESO 253-G003, by Anna Payne, Benjamin Shappee, Jason Hinkle, et al.: PatternRecognition ASASSN14ko AGN TDE TidalDisruption BlackHole ActiveGalaxy NASA Swift ...

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Jan 17, 2021Jan 2021

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"Magnetic reconnection as a mechanism for energy extraction from rotating black holes” by Luca Comisso and Felipe A. Asenjo, 13 January 2021: BlackHole GeneralRelativity EnergyExtraction MagneticReconnection Astronomy

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Dec 25, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by guru

My wife’s leaving me because she thinks I’m obsessed with astronomy. What planet is she on?

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Dec 21, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by StraightNews

At 18:20 UTC tonight Jupiter and Saturn will line up within 0.1 degrees of each other. The last great conjunction was in 1623, however tonight's will be easily visible by the naked eye which last occurred in 1226.

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Sep 17, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by ajhilder

Starts at 7:27 Life on Venus: Special Report on America Free Radio with Brooks Agnew 16 Sept, 2020 Everything we ever knew about Venus is about to change. In a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy Sept. 14, a group of ...

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Sep 11, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by Miner

White people are amazing. We developed the 5 greatest ideas in science 1. The Atomic Structure of Matter (Physics) 2. The Periodic Law (Chemistry), 3. The Big Bang theory (Astronomy), 4. The Plate Tectonics Theory (Geology), 5. DNA and Genetics ...

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Jul 23, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by kresica

As I have it, this year we had eight comets in fly-by as well as quite a few meteor-showers; and there's still 5 months to go - we could be witnessing a record year in that manner. Throughout July, Comet NEOWISE has been visible to those in the ...

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Jul 17, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by TheFireRises

1446 ---------------- July 17, 2015 Location: Columbus,OH Victim(s): Tim Bowls (survived), Jill (survived) Attacker(s): Michael Antonio Long,Clement Dwight Cooper Description: Long and Cooper were burglarizing the home, when Tim ...

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May 7, 2020May 2020

Posted by kresica

Astronomers have discovered a black hole just 1000 light-years from Earth - closer to our Solar System than any found to date. It forms part of a triple system located in the constellation of Telescopium and can be viewed without binoculars or a ...

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Sep 13, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by kresica

LINKAstronomy photographs of 2019.

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Apr 2, 2019Apr 2019

Posted by KyleRiebe

Cosmology, field of study that brings together the natural sciences, particularly astronomy and physics, in a joint effort to understand the physical universe as a unified whole.

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