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‘Exotic’ lightning crackles across Jupiter’s cloud tops 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 5, 2020
The flashes of light could form thanks to ammonia antifreeze

By David Aragorn
Perseid Meteor Shower 2020: Everything You Need To Know To See ‘Fireballs’ In August 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 5, 2020
Are you ready for the year’s most popular meteor shower?

By David Aragorn
Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers: study 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 4, 2020
A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars’s surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new UBC research published today in Nature Geoscience.

By David Aragorn
Nasa astronauts aboard SpaceX capsule make first splashdown in 45 years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 4, 2020
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley land off Florida after two-month voyage that was Nasa’s first crewed mission from home in nine years

By David Aragorn
See the ‘space butterfly’ astronomers captured from thousands of light years away 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 4, 2020
Thousands of light years away, there’s a “space butterfly” colored with brilliant blues and clouds of purple and red. It’s an image we’ve never seen in this much detail before.

By David Aragorn
Desert Fireball Network scientists find two meteorites in two weeks 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2020
Curtin University researchers have discovered two meteorites in a two week period on the Nullarbor Plain—one freshly fallen and the other from November 2019.

By David Aragorn
Government’s Secret UFO-Hunting Program Revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2020
The U.S. Government has secretly been searching for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) years after it disbanded its official UFO-hunting Pentagon group, according to reports.

By David Aragorn
ALMA May Have Found Neutron Star in Supernova Remnant SN 1987A 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2020
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found new evidence that a very young neutron star is hiding deep inside the remains of the supernova 1987A (SN 1987A).

By David Aragorn
Nasa Mars rover: Perseverance robot launches to detect life on Red Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2020
The US space agency’s Perseverance robot has left Earth on a mission to try to detect life on Mars.

By David Aragorn
The physics of solar flares could help scientists predict imminent outbursts 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 31, 2020
Large outbursts of radiation from the sun can damage infrastructure on Earth

By David Aragorn