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The nucleus of comet P/2016 BA14 as seen by NASA’s Goldstone radar facility when the comet passed close to Earth in March 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
A dead comet that doesn't chafe
Phil Plait
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Decades-old Galileo images of Europa get a detailed digital makeover
Jeff Spry
May 3, 2020
Europa Hero
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Just when we thought we found the oldest stuff on Earth, there’s... weirder stuff
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 4, 2020
NASA image of a nebula
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The oldest stuff on Earth is 7-billion-year-old stardust that smells like rotten peanut butter
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 14, 2020
stellar debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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From alien moons to frozen planets, NASA’s new mission plans are literally cool (and hot)
Elizabeth Rayne
Oct 29, 2019
NASA image of Pluto
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A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet
Phil Plait
Sep 5, 2019
A close-up of NWA 11119 shows the lovely green crystals of pyroxene. Credit: UNM Institute of Meteoritics
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A nearby binary neutron star collision may have seeded the early solar system with gold
Phil Plait
May 7, 2019
Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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Dwarf planet FarFarOut is further than anything we’ve ever seen in our solar system
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 28, 2019
NASA image of the Oort cloud
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Meet your very, *very* distant solar system neighbor 2018 VG18
Phil Plait
Dec 18, 2018
Artwork depicting the extremely distant Kuiper Belt Object 2018 VG18. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Carnegie Institution for Science
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A newly discovered *extremely* distant icy world points to Planet 9
Phil Plait
Oct 2, 2018
Artwork depicting Planet Nine, a theorized super-Earth orbiting the Sun several tens of billions of kilometers out. Observations of distant icy worlds imply this planet exists.
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Ice blue meteorite crystals show evidence of an active young Sun
Phil Plait
Aug 8, 2018
hiboHibonite crystals formed very early in the solar system's history and bear evidence of an active young Sun. Credit: Field Museum, University of Chicago, NASA, ESA, and E. Feild (STScl).nite
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There could be a piece of an alien star system right here on Earth
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 6, 2018
NASA image of asteroids
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Scaling the solar system
Phil Plait
Jan 19, 2018
The solar system, with object sizes to scale, but not the distances. Credit: Wikipedia / WP / PlanetUser
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And Kepler-90i makes eight: Another eight-planet solar system found!
Phil Plait
Dec 15, 2017
Kepler 90 planets. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel
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Star Stuff: Why Mars needs protecting from us
Summer Ash
Nov 16, 2017
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Star Stuff: Fly me to the Moon, & Mercury, & Mars
Summer Ash
Nov 9, 2017
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