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Season 2022
2022x1
The Night Sky in Infrared
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Jan 04, 2022
James Webb wouldn’t be equipped to look in the infrared if not for the previous missions that have allowed us to see the universe in wavelengths that the human eye can’t see!
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Keeping the Fungus Among Us in Space
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Jan 07, 2022
Developing new methods for survival in space is a constant and ever-evolving process, and a well known Earthly organism has the potential for multiple applications within space’s unforgiving environment!
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Can Moon Colonies Get Oxygen From the...Moon?
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Jan 11, 2022
As we look towards longer missions to the Moon, the shear amount of resources needed to survive becomes a much bigger question. Without space semi-trucks to haul life-giving resources to .. show full overview
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Why Don't Comets Ever Have a Green Tail?
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Jan 25, 2022
There’s no question that comets have been regarded as some of the most beautiful things in the night sky for thousands of years. But why are their heads often green but never their tails?
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What's Next for the James Webb Space Telescope
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Jan 28, 2022
It finally happened! The James Webb Space Telescope is on its way to capturing never-before-seen images of the universe! But now that it’s airborne and unfurled, what are its next steps before it can deliver the goods?
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How 19th Century Lighthouses Power Advanced Space Drives
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Feb 01, 2022
The technology we use for space exploration gets more advanced all the time, but some of our most ambitious programs actually rely on optics invented in the 19th century for lighthouses.
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The Sweetest Rocks in Space
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Feb 07, 2022
Sugars aren’t just for munching and crunching, they also make up our genetic code! So what does it mean to find sugars INSIDE meteorites?
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The Massive Chunk of Metal Hiding in the Moon
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Feb 11, 2022
The moon's South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest known crater in existence, and there's something big hidden underneath.
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Space Headwinds Might Help Us Find Dark Matter
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Feb 15, 2022
Some scientists are hoping to use our motion through the galaxy to help detect some of the most elusive particles of all: dark matter.
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Is the Size of Neutron Stars A Lie, Or Only A FRIB?
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Feb 18, 2022
Have we been wrong about how big neutron stars are this whole time?
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The Oldest Crater from a Meteorite…Isn’t a Crater after All?
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Feb 22, 2022
There's one crater that may be older than any that we know of. Except there's a snag, it might not actually be a crater at all.
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Pioneer 10: Our First View into Outer Planets
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Mar 01, 2022
In the 1970's, no vehicle had gone beyond the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, that is until Pioneer 10.
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Two Decades Later, We Know Why the Sun Is a Lava Lamp
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Mar 04, 2022
In 1999, scientists discovered something that took over 20 years to solve. Why do solar flares move like a lava lamp?
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Helping Build the Internet: Valerie Thomas | Great Minds
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Mar 08, 2022
Despite computers barely being a thing when she was born, Valerie Thomas knew that she was cut out for the tech world, pushed until she got there, and contributed to some hugely important technologies that many of us could not live without.
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What’s Hiding Inside The Crab Nebula?
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Mar 11, 2022
The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied things in the sky, but it took glimpses through various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum to get a full picture of what’s hiding inside!
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Could Squirrels Be the Key to Long Distance Spaceflight?
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Mar 15, 2022
Space is hard on the human body, but a certain ground squirrel might have the guts to show us how to last longer in space.
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From Optics to Spacewalks: Dr. Ellen Ochoa | Great Minds
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Mar 18, 2022
Dr. Ellen Ochoa is incredible! She published over a dozen papers, co-filed three patents, and was a NASA engineer, all before becoming an astronaut and spending nearly a thousand hours in space.
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How Space Changes Your Brain
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Mar 22, 2022
We've been sending people to space since the '60s, and we're just now starting to learn what that does to their brains.
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What Will Happen to The ISS?
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Mar 25, 2022
After more than two decades buzzing around above our heads, the life of the ISS will soon be coming to a close. But what does that actually look like? And what does it mean for the future of space experimentation?
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That’s Not a Black Hole, It’s a Vampire
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Mar 29, 2022
What was once thought to be a black hole might in fact be a star that feeds on its own kind!
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What Do You Learn When You Touch the Sun?
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Apr 05, 2022
Though our Sun is something we can count on to rise and set each day, it also comes with some phenomena that can catch us by surprise: solar winds. To better predict when these winds .. show full overview
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How to Tilt a Black Hole
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Apr 12, 2022
It seems the more we learn about black holes, the more there is to find out. In this case, what in the universe could have put one on its side?
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How to Clean Up After Ourselves in Space
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Apr 19, 2022
We've launched thousands of spacecraft over the years. And as the space junk around our planet builds up, researchers are working on ways to clean things up using some obvious things, like lasers, and some less obvious ones, like solar sails.
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Do Black Holes Have Quantum Hair?
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Apr 22, 2022
We don’t know what happens to stuff when it gets sucked into a black hole, but in the same instance, we don’t know what happens to the black hole. There’s a possibility that sucked up stuff might actually give the black hole “quantum hair”.
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Can We Grow Plants On the Moon?
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Apr 26, 2022
Despite how easy it looks in movies, growing plants on other planets is trickier than you might imagine.
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We’re Talking To Aliens
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Apr 29, 2022
We’ve done a lot of searching for life in the universe and we need to continue to if we hope to make contact. But not all of our attempts were expected to succeed. That’s where Beacon in the Galaxy comes in.
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That Time NASA Recycled a Mars Lander
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May 03, 2022
While most spacecraft are designed and built from scratch for one particular mission, the Phoenix Lander was pieced together from previous missions and rose from the ashes...all the way to Mars.
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This Exoplanet Shows We Might Be Wrong About Planet Formation
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May 10, 2022
Though we’ve been able detect thousands of exoplanets in the last few decades, we’ve now directly imaged an exoplanet that changes our whole perspective on how we think planets like Jupiter form!
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The Hottest Exoplanets in the Universe
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May 13, 2022
With exoplanets, often we want to know if they are Earth-like and whether they might host life, but we can also learn a lot from planets that are nothing like Earth.
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How Saturn's Moons Could Help Us Live in Space
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May 17, 2022
As we continue our search for life out in the universe, it's important that we leave no stone, or moon, unturned.
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A Telescope Bigger Than the Solar System
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May 20, 2022
It turns out if you’d like to take a deeper look into the universe, the universe itself might actually help you do that!
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Space Medicine: What We Need and What We Have
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May 24, 2022
If we're going to send astronauts out to Mars someday, we'll need to figure out how to send a pharmacy with them.
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Why These Two Planets SHOULD Be the Same
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May 27, 2022
You'd think that two planets with similar stats, orbits, and parent stars would grow up to be pretty similar, but these twins have atmospheres that beg to differ.
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Where Are All the Exo-Earths?
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May 31, 2022
Scientists have discovered over 5,000 exoplanets in the last few decades, but where are the Exo-Earths?
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Mama, Where Do Galaxies Come From?
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Jun 03, 2022
For most of human history, we didn't know that galaxies were a thing. So over the past century, astronomers have been working to understand how galaxies come to be and how they evolve .. show full overview
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Detecting Tornadoes Early by Observing Lightning... from Space
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Jun 07, 2022
It’s handy having a view of Earth from space. This particular view may be one that changes the way we predict weather phenomena.
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Earth Doesn’t Orbit the Sun
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Jun 10, 2022
Understanding gravity can sometimes be a bit of a balancing act, much like the fundamental laws of physics and how they inform what it is exactly that Earth orbits.
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Fun in the Summer Sun… on Saturn
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Jun 17, 2022
For 13 years, the Cassini probe circled Saturn and sent back fascinating data about the seasons of Saturn as it moved through a 29 Earth year Saturnian year.
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“Do Fabulous Science”: Jane Rigby | Great Minds
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Jun 24, 2022
Astronomer Dr. Jane Rigby challenges the limits of the naked eye. Having influenced most famous telescopes that come to mind, her work is defined by breaking boundaries both physical and beyond.
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Why These Rovers Will Never Go To Mars
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Jun 28, 2022
It’s nice to think that every rover we land on Mars is totally unique, but isn’t it even nicer to know that they’ve got a twin or even a triplet here on Earth making sure they’re up for the job ahead?
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The Chinese Mission Finding Water on Mars
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Jul 05, 2022
Several rovers on Mars's surface are currently in operation, including one you might not have heard of: China’s Zhurong rover. It's already spent over a year on the Martian surface and .. show full overview
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Eclipses That Don't Eclipse
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Jul 13, 2022
Here on Earth, we’re used to seeing both lunar and solar eclipses. But further out are eclipses that don’t behave at all the way we expected them to.
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Special Webb Update: The Webb's First Four (actually 7) Images Explained
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Jul 14, 2022
The first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope are finally here! Let's take a look, talk about what we're seeing, and compare them to the most detailed version of these images we had before.
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What Keeps Astronauts Up At Night?
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Jul 19, 2022
Sleep is a crucial activity for our brains to function properly. But when you’re on the ISS, you face a myriad of distractions and obligations that make it difficult to get good shuteye. So how do these astronauts ever get restful sleep?
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How To X-Ray A Black Hole
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Jul 26, 2022
Black holes are everywhere, including at the center of our galaxy. But because they’re invisible they’re quite difficult to study. Looking at the disks of material surrounding them, .. show full overview
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Hayabusa: The Artificial Meteor Launched From An Asteroid
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Aug 02, 2022
After we retrieved samples of the moon, it was quite a while before we could land on anything else and bring bits of it back home.
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How We Get Sick in Space and How to Recover
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Aug 05, 2022
No one likes being sick, but can you imagine catching a bug while hurling through space? Turns out, this is an issue that many space agencies have worked to study and mitigate.
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How Distant Stars Let Us See the Solar System Up Close
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Aug 09, 2022
Occultations may sound spooky, but in actuality they can inform us of some of the most unknown parts of the universe.
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The Mystery of the Star That Wasn't There
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Aug 16, 2022
In the 1970s, astronomers discovered a mysterious source of gamma rays that, 50 years later, still hasn’t revealed all of its secrets.
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The Asteroid That Nearly Swallowed OSIRIS-Rex
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Aug 23, 2022
It's always an asteroid heading straight toward us that we worry about, never what happens to us when we head straight toward the asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's experience with Bennu tells us it's worth a thought.
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The Ominous Reason Phobos Has Lines on It
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Sep 01, 2022
Mars’s moon, Phobos, is striped with grooves all across its surface. But if one theory about where they came from is true, does that mean this moon might be on its way out?
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Where Did Mercury’s Spots Come From?
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Sep 06, 2022
The Sun isn’t the only celestial body in the solar system to boast spots of its own. Mercury, too, has its fair share, and they’re worth wondering about.
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New and Ancient Lessons from Lunar Eclipses
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Sep 13, 2022
Ancient perceptions of lunar eclipses weren’t as primitive as one might think. Some rigorous math was applied to these cosmic events that shaped our understanding of the solar system.
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How to Move the Sky
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Sep 20, 2022
The earth is always moving, and our view of the night sky is slowly but surely changing.
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Goodbye SOFIA, Thanks for All the Discoveries
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Sep 27, 2022
SOFIA or The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is coming to an end, but let's look back on some of the amazing discoveries of this flying telescope.
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Goodbye, SOFIA, the Telescope That Actually Flew
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Sep 30, 2022
In 1997, NASA bought a Boeing 747SP for what might be both a super cool and super absurd purpose. Turn it into SOFIA, a flying telescope.
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The One-Second Success Story of Venera 7
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Oct 04, 2022
Venus may have been named after the Roman goddess of beauty, but once humans started sending spacecraft to the planet next door, we quickly learned that beauty… hurts.
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How Do You Date a Star?
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Oct 11, 2022
Figuring out the age of a blinking speck in the sky is a difficult feat, especially if considering how many types of stars there are. This is where a Hertzsprung-Russell meets a gyrochronologist.
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Why are Astronomers So Bad at Naming Things?
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Oct 18, 2022
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Great Minds: Conny Aerts, the Starquake Professor
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Oct 25, 2022
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How to Make a Dark Matter Planet
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Oct 28, 2022
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The Spacecraft That Wasn't Designed To Land, But Did
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Nov 01, 2022
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Life on an 8-Hour Planet
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Nov 08, 2022
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Early Earth Microbes May Have Eaten Raw Meteorites
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Nov 15, 2022
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Earth’s other moons
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Nov 22, 2022
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Are Space Sounds Lies?
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Nov 29, 2022
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How Do You Find the Moon’s Best Picnic Spot?
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Dec 02, 2022
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How Blocking the Sun Makes Mars Hotter
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Dec 06, 2022
If we’re going to send people to Mars someday, we’re going to need to be very conscious of the challenges presented in this endeavor. And at the top of that list is the ferocious nature of dust on the barren planet.
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Five Of The Biggest, Baddest Supernova Varieties
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Dec 13, 2022
Supernovae are only rare to the passive stargazer, but if you’re an astronomer studying them, you get to see some of the most brilliant explosions in the universe. Here are five of the most significant supernovae known to science.
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This Year in Space News (That Isn't JWST)
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Dec 16, 2022
If you’ve been distracted looking at the amazing photos The James Webb Space Telescope has taken, not to worry. Here are three other stellar stories from the last year of space science!
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Space Superlatives of 2022
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Dec 20, 2022
As we wrap up 2022, we'd like to celebrate a few of the cosmic “winners” discovered this year, at least while they still hold their titles.
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Did Earth's Continents Come from Space?
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Dec 27, 2022
Earth didn't always have the land beneath your feet, but what might have caused it to form is a bit of a mystery.

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