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Aug 29th: Dual Quasars, Tidal Disruption Events & a Halo For Andromeda

Join us today as we examine observations for dual quasars in the process of merging and a star being torn apart by its supermassive black hole. The post Aug 29th: Dual Quasars, Tidal Disruption Events...

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Aug 22nd: Stars and Planets May Grow Up Together!

New images taken with the ALMA Observatory show a young proto-stellar disk with the rings and gaps of planetary formation growing together, once again challenging our preconceptions The post Aug 22nd:...

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Aug 15th: Cool Worlds, Exploding Stars, & an Asteroid That Missed Earth

Join us today as we look at how citizen science helped discover 100 cool worlds nearby and examine evidence contributed to a mass extinction The post Aug 15th: Cool Worlds, Exploding Stars, & an...

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Aug 8th: It Came From the Outer Solar System

This week episode talk about the newly discovered outer solar system objects to interstellar comet 3I/Atlas to the Perseid Meteor shower The post Aug 8th: It Came From the Outer Solar System appeared...

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Aug 1st: Saturn’s Rings Are Made of a Broken-up Moon

Using computer simulations, researchers have pieced together a possible scenario where Titan caused another of Saturn’s moons to break up and become the beautiful ring system we see today The post Aug...

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Jul 25th: Volunteer Stargazer

Lets take a look at how volunteers throughout history have aided in scientific explorations and tell you how you can get involved with our latest community science projects. The post Jul 25th:...

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Jul 18th: Magnetic Fields Help Find Ocean Worlds

Researchers have determined how to effectively measure the magnetic fields at Neptune to determine if any of the moons are ocean worlds… The post Jul 18th: Magnetic Fields Help Find Ocean Worlds...

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Jul 11th: Lightweight Mars-sized Planet Found in TESS Data

A Mars-sized planet was found just 31 light-years away, orbiting its star every eight hours and having 55 percent the mass of the Earth, leading scientists to conclude it’s mostly made of an...

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Jul 4th: 2 Tales of 2 decades: Rubin Observatory & SpaceX Starship

Join us as we look at two parallel stories - the development of the Vera Rubin Observatory and the SpaceX Starship rocket. Both projects are 20 years in the making The post Jul 4th: 2 Tales of 2...

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Jun 27th: When the Universe Attacks

Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Fermi Paradox by looking at a bunch of science capable of preventing and destroying civilizations The post Jun 27th: When the Universe Attacks appeared...

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Jun 20th: Black Hole Caught Eating Faster Than Normal

With a bit of luck & a lot of time on different telescopes, researchers managed to capture SgrA*, consuming matter at a faster rate than usual The post Jun 20th: Black Hole Caught Eating Faster...

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Jun 13th: A Moon Rock Samples Show Signs of Late Volcanism

An analysis of the Moon rocks sample returned by the Chang’e-5 implies a previously unknown heat source in the region. The post Jun 13th: A Moon Rock Samples Show Signs of Late Volcanism appeared first...

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Jun 6th: Happy Space News!

Lets take a closer look at the search for a possible planet in our outer solar system & also aurorae here, Jupiter, & Neptune The post Jun 6th: Happy Space News! appeared first on 365 Days of...

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May 30th: A Failing Look at Earth, a First Look at Other Worlds

In this week’s closer look we are going to look at the earth-facing missions that are getting dragged down by our atmosphere and will be forcibly retired by physics in the next few years, again with no...

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May 23rd: Cosmic Mystery Solved & Stellar Missing Link Discovered

Today’s top story focuses on the Blue Ring Nebula, a phase of a star merger never seen before, providing missing link for merger progression The post May 23rd: Cosmic Mystery Solved & Stellar...

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May 16th: Iceland Has a New Volcanic Fissure Erupting in Fagradalsfjall

After much “will it / won’t it” over the last few weeks in the wake of increased (and then decreased) seismic activity, an eruption in Iceland finally started with a brand new fissure near...

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May 9th: Astronomers Discover 63 Galaxies in Protocluster

Astronomers researching the G237 protocluster find 63 galaxies within, all producing stars and more galaxies at a high rate, acting as a “shipyard” for their region of the cosmos The post May 9th:...

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May 2nd: Federal Budget Cuts: An Extinction-level Event

This week we look at how the elimination of science programs, projects, datasets, and funding may be shaping into an extinction-level event for US Space-related sciences. Come cry with us. The post May...

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Apr 25th: Magnetar Exhibits Bizarre Behavior, Identity Crisis

A radio-loud magnetar first observed in March suffered an apparent identity crisis, behaving like a pulsar until gradually settling into magnetar-like emissions in July. The post Apr 25th: Magnetar...

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Apr 18th: From the Beginning of the Universe to the Beginning of Spring, it’s...

Let's take a fast-paced journey through all that's new in space and astronomy, including dark energy news, the death of supersymmetry, a closer look at remoting sensing in Earth science, and tales from...

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