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Bob King posted the thread Sky & Scope Dazzling Doubles for Compromised Skies in RSS Feeds.

For many, smoke from wildfires has transformed summer nights, blotting out stars and familiar deep-sky sights. But through it all double...

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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now “Mountains” on neutron stars just fractions of a millimetre tall in RSS Feeds.

An artist’s impression of a compact neutron star. Computer modelling suggests extreme gravity results in a near-perfect sphere with...

Today at 7:57 AM
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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now Perseverance surveys the magnificent desolation of Jezero Crater in RSS Feeds.

Images from the Perseverance mars rover’s navigation cameras were stitched together at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to produce a stark...

Yesterday at 3:10 PM
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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now InSight finds frigid Mars has molten core in RSS Feeds.

A visualisation of the interior of Mars, based on seismic data from a French instrument carried to the red planet by NASA’s Insight...

Yesterday at 3:10 PM
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AAS Nova posted the thread Sky & Scope A Pileup of Perpendicular Planets in RSS Feeds.

In some planetary systems, the direction that a star spins and the direction its planets orbit don’t always line up. A new study...

Yesterday at 3:10 PM
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Daniel Johnson posted the thread Sky & Scope 50 Years Ago: Apollo 15 Astronauts Explore the Moon in RSS Feeds.

See photos — some familiar and some rarely seen — from the Apollo 15 mission, which launched place 50 years ago today. The post 50...

Monday at 12:16 PM
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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now In a first, ALMA spies huge moon-forming disc around exoplanet in RSS Feeds.

A wide-angle view of the PDS 70 system, at left, shows a large circumstellar disc of dusty debris surrounding a young star 400 light...

Friday at 11:37 PM
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Jure Japelj posted the thread Sky & Scope How Often Do Chicxulub-level Asteroids Hit Earth? in RSS Feeds.

Asteroids of different sizes crashing on Earth originated from different parts of the main asteroid belt, researchers say; the finding...

Friday at 12:34 PM
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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now Perseverance Mars rover poised to collect first rock samples in RSS Feeds.

Due south of its landing site, the Perseverance rover is now in a region described as “cratered floor fractured rough.” The rover is...

Friday at 10:14 AM
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Alan MacRobert posted the thread Sky & Scope This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 23 – 31 in RSS Feeds.

Saturn and Jupiter shine in the southeast by late evening. The bright Moon passes them on the 24th through 26th. Venus continues to sit...

Friday at 5:03 AM
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Lauren Sgro posted the thread Sky & Scope Astronomers Detect Potential Moon-forming Disk around an Exoplanet in RSS Feeds.

Astronomers have made the first clear detection of a dusty disk surrounding an exoplanet, which could eventually go on to form moons...

Thursday at 4:52 PM
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Monica Young posted the thread Sky & Scope NASA's Insight Reveals First Look Inside Mars in RSS Feeds.

The Insight mission science team has used about 10 deep marsquakes to take stock of the planet's anatomy. The post NASA's Insight...

Thursday at 3:45 PM
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David Dickinson posted the thread Sky & Scope NASA's Perseverance to Collect First Sample from Mars in RSS Feeds.

Perseverance will soon collect the first of many samples from the Martian surface in a quest to answer whether the planet once hosted...

July 21, 2021
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Josh Urban posted the thread Sky & Scope Night at the (Celestial) Museum in RSS Feeds.

Take some time to explore the overlooked masterpiece of Messier 56. The post Night at the (Celestial) Museum appeared first on Sky &...

July 21, 2021
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Lauren Sgro posted the thread Sky & Scope Milky Way Magnetar Spits Gamma Rays on Schedule in RSS Feeds.

A Milky Way magnetar surprises astronomers by burping up gamma rays right when their predictions anticipated. The post Milky Way...

July 21, 2021

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