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  • Mystery Of Creepy Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Gets Trickier
    ʻOumuamu
    One of the strangest things about 'Oumuamua, the first object detected and confirmed to come from outside the solar system, is its shape.
  • Online Astronomy Course Offered To Budding Scientists
    Black Telescope Under Blue and Black Sky
    Instructors include four of the best astronomers in the world!
  • Scientists May Have Discovered The Rarest Planet In The Universe
    flame and horsehead nebular in Orion's Belt
    Astronomers say they may have found the first known planet that's caught up in the orbits of three different stars.
  • 'Rusting' Moon Is Likely Earth's Fault
    The moon is seen outside the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, September 1, 2020.
    The rust found on the Moon, hematite, is a kind of iron oxide when water, iron, and oxygen are combined.
  • NASA Tests Its SLS Megarocket Booster For Future Moon Missions
    A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover vehicle lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
    Results from this test will also be used to ready the builds of booster rockets after the Artemis 3 mission.
  • The Sun Might Have Once Had a Binary Companion Star
    Artist's impression of the binary star system AR Scorpii
    If confirmed, the implications of this could be groundbreaking, especially where theories on how the Oort Cloud formed and whether or not our system captured a massive object (Planet Nine) in the past.
  • NASA's Trojan Asteroid Hunter Is Being Assembled For A 2021 Launch
    An artist’s conception of the Lucy spacecraft flying by the Trojan Eurybates
    NASA's Lucy mission passed a critical milestone and is officially authorized to transition to its next phase.
  • Hubble Data Reveals Andromeda Galaxy's Massive Halo
    The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda
    The new research found that the structure of Andromeda's halo is also more complicated than previously expected.
  • Venus' Clouds May Hold Evidence Of Past And Present Life
    Venus is always brighter than all other planets or stars as seen from Earth
    In the skies of Venus, life would likely need to shelter within cloud droplets.
  • SpaceX’s 100th Launch Is The First Polar Launch In Decades
    SpaceX Falcon 9
    SpaceX's rocket performed perfectly, sending an expendable Falcon 9 second stage (S2), a payload fairing, SAOCOM 1B, and two rideshare payloads on their way to orbit.
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