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Black holes shouldn’t echo, but this one might. Score 1 for Stephen Hawking?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
This isn’t how black holes are supposed to behave.

By David Aragorn
Hot Jupiter Planet Is So Hot Its Prone to Planet Meltdowns 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
Astronomers say this planet is the hottest identified so far.

By David Aragorn
US Space Force logo looks like one from Star Trek 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
The newly unveiled logo for US Space Force appears to have boldly gone where Star Trek went before.

By David Aragorn
It Only Takes A Few Thousand Years For Jupiter-Like Planets To Form Around Red Dwarf Stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2020
With over 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, we’re starting to get an idea of which types are common and which are rare. We’ve learned that our solar system is rather unusual in ways you wouldn’t expect. Take, for example, the presence of large planets orbiting small stars.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2020
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting other astronomical transients—objects that brighten or dim over time. A new search of Kepler archival data has uncovered an unusual super-outburst from a previously unknown dwarf nova. The system brightened by a factor of 1,600 over less than a day before slowly fading away.

By David Aragorn
Could Invisible Extraterrestrial Life Forms Really Exist Among Us?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2020
Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym ‘MRS-GREN’ to describe it. It stands for movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition. But Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut and a chemist at Imperial College London, recently said that alien life forms that are impossible to spot may be living among us. How could that be possible?

By David Aragorn
China Releases a Treasure Trove of New Images On The Far Side of The Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2020
China’s lunar robots images cover about a year of exploration on the far side of the moon.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers just got a deep peek at a black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2020
Using a technique akin to echolocation, scientists were able to map the region around a distant black hole’s event horizon in unprecedented detail.

By David Aragorn
Scientists want to turn moondust into oxygen 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 22, 2020
NASA’s plan is to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024, but the European Space Agency is working on a plan to help humans breathe on the celestial satellite — by turning moondust into oxygen.

By David Aragorn
For the first time, an asteroid has been found nearer to the sun than Venus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 21, 2020
The space rock probably reached its orbit after a series of close encounters with rocky planets

By David Aragorn