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The Closest Star to Our Solar System Has Suffered an Insane Eruption 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2018
10 times brighter than any flares from our Sun.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find Bugs That Could Indicate There Is Hidden Life On Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2018
Microbes can lie dormant for decades under Earth’s surface – and could be doing the same on Mars

By David Aragorn
Falcon Heavy May Have Drastically Increased the Number of Asteroids We Can Mine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2018
Asteroid mining is about more than just heading up into space and bringing back a rock full of platinum—you actually need to land something on just the right asteroid.

By David Aragorn
SUMMER SUN HALOS 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 28, 2018
Yesterday’s high temperature in Florianópolis, Brazil, topped 90 degrees F, typical of the region’s warm summer days.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious isolated object investigated by astronomers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 27, 2018
An international team of astronomers led by Philippe Delorme of the Grenoble Alpes University in France has recently investigated a mysterious object designated CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 (CFBDSIR 2149-0403 for short) in order to reveal its true nature.

By David Aragorn
EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD IS RINGING LIKE A BELL 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 23, 2018
On Febuary 22nd, a high speed solar wind stream is passing just south of Earth, making grazing contact with our planet’s magnetic field. This is causing something unusual to happen. Around the poles, Earth’s magnetic field has been ringing like a bell. Rob Stammes recorded the phenomenon from his magnetic observatory in Lofoton, Norway.

By David Aragorn
A Giant Storm on Neptune Is Disappearing as Hubble Telescope Watches 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 23, 2018
A dark storm on Neptune, once big enough to reach from Boston to Portugal, is dwindling to nothing as the Hubble Space Telescope keeps watch.

By David Aragorn
An amateur astronomer accidentally caught an exploding star on camera—and it gets better 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
He was excited to test his new camera, but he also captured something totally unique.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Completes Eleventh Jupiter Flyby, Delivers New Photos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
NASA’s Juno orbiter successfully made its eleventh flyby of Jupiter on February 7, 2018.

By David Aragorn
Asteroids Could Be ‘Time Capsules’ Showing How Life Began on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
As much as we tend to panic over the idea of an asteroid crashing into the Earth, one possible explanation for life on Earth is that an asteroid brought it here in the first place.

By David Aragorn