NASA is teaming up with Russia to put a new space station near the moon. Here’s why.0
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- September 29, 2017
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Astronomers Find Record-Breaking Oxygen-Deficient Galaxy0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2017
The oxygen level in J0811+4730, a star-forming dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx, some 630 million light-years away, is the lowest yet discovered in any star-forming galaxy, according to an international team of astronomers from the University of Virginia and the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.
NASA’s asteroid chaser zips by Earth for gravity boost0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2017
An unmanned NASA spacecraft traveling to a distant asteroid veered toward Earth on Friday for a gravitational slingshot maneuver that will better aim it toward the Sun-orbiting space rock, Bennu, the US space agency said.
Australia to create national space agency0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2017
Australia on Monday committed to creating a national space agency as it looks to cash in on the lucrative and fast-evolving astronautical sector.
Gobekli Tepe Constellations0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2017
This is meant to provide a brief analysis to explain the origin of several of the animal figures from the Gobekli Tepe temple site in Turkey, arising about 9000 BC and haralded as the earliest (known) temple of the world.
Mysterious comet spotted a decade ago revealed to be two ‘dancing asteroids’ circling each other0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2017
New Hubble images have now revealed the object is actually two asteroids.
Europe withdraws from anti-asteroid mission0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2017
An upcoming mission designed to test out the deflection of a large asteroid has hit a bit of a snag.
Scientists Find New Evidence for Surface Water Ice at Mercury’s North Pole0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2017
A new study led by Brown University planetary researchers adds three new large members to the list of water ice-filled craters near Mercury’s north pole and shows evidence that smaller-scale deposits scattered around the north pole; those deposits may be small, but they could add up to a lot more previously unaccounted-for ice.
SPACECRAFT BUZZES EARTH EN ROUTE TO ASTEROID0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2017
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is going to fly past Earth on Sept. 22nd, sling-shotting itself toward a potentially hazardous asteroid named “Bennu.”
Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the Solar System0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2017
With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet-like features, including a bright coma and a long tail. This is the first known binary asteroid also classified as a comet. The research is presented in a paper published in the journal Nature today.
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