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Mosaic of images from the Mars Curiosity rover showing noctilucent clouds glowing over the western horizon after sunset. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Justin Cowart
Eerie glowing clouds light up the Martian twilight
Phil Plait
The asteroid Bennu, a “rubble pile”, seen by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of 13 km. Note the huge boulder on the lower right. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
What astronomers mean by 'rubble pile asteroids'
Phil Plait
Our vantage angle on NGC 5866 emphasizes its spectacular lane of dust, as seen here in this Hubble image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
NGC 5866, an edge-on galaxy, shows off its spectacular dust lane
Phil Plait
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Cross-sections of various micrometeorites show different grain and mineral structures. Credit: Wikipedia / S. Taylor / Shaw Street
Can you really find micrometeorites in your gutter? Well…
Phil Plait
Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5
Science Behind the Fiction: How many people did Daenerys likely kill at King's Landing?
Cassidy Ward
Artwork depicting a black hole eating a star, the ferocious tides tearing the star apart. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
A black hole in a distant galaxy has been eating a star… for more than a *decade*!
Phil Plait
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Sci-fi bioreactor can make food and water in space from... algae
Elizabeth Rayne
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Photobioreactor on the ISS
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Could larger space rocks be hiding in the Beta Taurid meteor stream? We may find out this summer.
Phil Plait
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A meteor shower — in theis case, the Perseids — is usually composed of small bits material sloughed off a comet that burn up in our atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL
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Start a story about Star Wars (or anything else), and this AI bot will finish it
Benjamin Bullard
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Luke and Han argue on the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV
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We live in a warped galaxy, say new observations of the Milky Way
Elizabeth Rayne
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NASA image of warped galaxy
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Crash site of the Apollo 12 ascent module possibly found after almost 50 years
Phil Plait
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An area of the Moon where the Apollo 12 Ascent stage may have crashed, leaving a dark furrow in the surface (arrowed). Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University / Quickmap
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Used late model SpaceX rocket boosters could be next big museum draw
Adam Pockross
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The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches in Florida on April 11 2019
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has a plan to help humans live on the Moon
Andrea Ayres
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Blue Origin Lunar Lander, Blue Moon
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When the first stars in the Universe exploded, they *really* exploded
Phil Plait
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Artwork depicting beams of matter and energy tearing through a massive blue star, creating a hypernova and gamma-ray burst. Credit: NASA/Dana Berry/Skyworks Digital
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Saturn’s rings are hiding moons shaped like frozen ravioli. Here’s why.
Elizabeth Rayne
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NASA image of Saturn and its ring moons
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Researchers discover tiny 9-foot-long relative of mighty T-rex
Jeff Spry
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Tiny T-Rex
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Thor's gotta be jealous of this crackling bolt of continuous current lightning
Adam Pockross
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Thor Avengers: Endgame
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What is the Milky Way’s most distant globular cluster?
Phil Plait
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A Hubble image of PSO J174.0675-10.8774 goes much deeper and has higher resolution than ground-based images, showing more stars. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble and Judy Schmidt
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Outbid everyone for the manual Neil Armstrong used to pilot Apollo 11 to the moon
Benjamin Bullard
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Footprint on the lunar surface
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Science Behind the Fiction: How Pokémon existing IRL would change the world
Cassidy Ward
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Robo-dinosaur runs wild and flaps its wings... for science
Elizabeth Rayne
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dinosaur robot
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