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The brecciated structure is apparent after a part of the San Marco meteorite was sawed off. Credit: Demarco et al.
Meteorite impacts a house in Uruguay
Phil Plait
Orbits of twelve new moons found for Jupiter (not to scale). Some orbit the same way Jupiter spins (blue), and others the opposite way (red). Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science / Roberto Molar Candanosa
Contest: Pick names for Jupiter's new moons!
Phil Plait
Goose the Flerken
Science Behind the Fiction: Could aliens pass for cats or humans, like in Captain Marvel?
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An image from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows Bennu, a 1-km wide asteroid, from a distance of 24 km on Dec. 2, 2018. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Holy spitting space rocks: Asteroid Bennu is active!
Phil Plait
Maybe not tucking in my shirt and not wearing a belt was another mistake, too. Credit: TEDxBoulder, from the video
My TED talk: Science learns by making mistakes… and admitting them
Phil Plait
Billions of years ago, Mars had surface water: lakes, rivers, and oceans. This artwork uses actual topographical data to map where that water would have been. Credit: lttiz / wikipedia
NASA's Mars Pathfinder may have landed at the edge of an ancient inland Martian sea
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Stephen Hawking will live forever on this commemorative black hole coin
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NASA image of a black hole
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Neil deGrasse Tyson returning to StarTalk and Cosmos after sexual misconduct investigation
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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This is the last thing Opportunity saw on Mars before finally shutting down for good
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Mars Opportunity rover image
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A panoply of extremely cool ExoMars images taken from high above the Martian surface
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Swirls created when dust on the Martian surface is swept clean by dust devils look like hair covering a ridge. Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Google team breaks Guinness World Record for most accurate value of pi
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A Pi Day pie from Reilly's Bakery in Biddeford at Biddeford High School
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Remind me again: Why exactly do we need the SLS?
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Artwork depicting NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) in flight. But do we really need this rocket? Credit: NASA
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NASA unearthing the secrets of untouched moon samples
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astronaut on the moon
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Zombified mammoth cells could mean a real Jurassic Park in the future
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Ice Age 2
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Science Behind the Fiction: Could Captain Marvel's memory be read in real life?
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Captain Marvel, child
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Trump’s proposed NASA budget for 2020 is a disaster
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SOS: Save Our Space! Credit: NASA/Phil Plait
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The staggering beauty of galactic collisions
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A closer look at the center of NGC 3256 reveals the chaos there, struggling to recover order. Dark dust clouds and bright stars may yet retain their overall spiral distribution. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
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The imperfect perfection of the star cluster NGC 1898
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A close-up of the reddish splotch in the globular cluster NGC 1898. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Jeff Goldblum goes all Ian Malcolm after hearing we could have real dinos in 5 years
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Jeff Goldblum Ian Malcolm via Jurassic World site 2019
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There might be a way to find out what a black hole ate
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NASA screengrab of black hole
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See celestial object Ultima Thlue in 3D — glasses or no glasses!
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Ultima Thule
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