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Name	Curiosity Has Detected a Large Methane Spike on Mars
Description	Last week, Curiosity made its strongest detection of methane on Mars yet. Its laser spectrometer instrument registered a methane spike of 21 parts per billion by volume (ppbv) in the Gale Crater, a region the rover has been exploring since it lande #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	24 June 2019

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Name	How to watch SpaceX, Elon Musk attempt 'most difficult launch ever' Monday
Description	The most powerful rocket from Elon Musk's SpaceX is once again set to take to the skies and beyond. Falcon Heavy is scheduled for its first nighttime launch on Monday, June 24. This will be the rocket system's third flight, and it will be a challenging one.  #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	Astronomers Just Found The Earliest Example Ever of Merging Galaxies
Description	Galaxy mergers are not particularly rare, but they are important events. Not only for the galaxies involved, but for scientists trying to piece together how galaxies evolve. Now, astronomers using ALMA have found the earliest example yet of merging #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	NASA Put Wheels on Its Mars 2020 Rover and Crikey This Is Actually Happening \| Gizmodo UK
Description	Grab a Mars 2020 Pass now and turn your friends green with envy. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	SpaceX Falcon Heavy: Why everyone should watch this night launch from Kennedy Space Center
Description	The first night launch for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 11:30 p.m. Monday night. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	Seeing red: Mankind gets closer to Mars
Description	NASA and SpaceX are both readying unmanned missions to the Red Planet, with the goal of putting human-filled boots on the ground #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	Scientists are looking to space to get more earthquake data
Description	Scientists are using satellites to compile the most efficient response information. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	How Apollo 11 dazzled the world: Moon maps in the Netherlands and American flags in Japan
Description	In Tokyo, the U.S. embassy was flooded with paper cranes, a symbol of good luck for the three Americans about to hitch a ride to the moon. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	Via the BBC, find out how Apollo 11’s Eagle actually landed \| Ars Technica
Description	13 Minutes to the Moon takes you through the first landing in exhaustive detail. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch ashes of an all-star, astronaut and others - CNET
Description	The first nighttime launch of the big rocket will also be a celestial funeral of sorts. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	Elon Musk mixes up the moon and Mars and Twitter blasts off - CNET
Description	The Super Smart Space Genius does it again. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	LESA Helps Astronauts Rescue Fallen Crewmembers
Description	The Lunar Evacuation System Assembly would allow a single astronaut to lift and transport a fallen crewmember back to the station. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	23 June 2019

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Name	Philly Refinery Explosion Shoots Fireball Visible from Space
Description	The explosion was so hot and massive, it was picked up by weather satellites. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Sorry Guys: The Most Comprehensive Radio Search Ever Just Found No Sign of Alien Life
Description	Our search for extraterrestrial intelligence requires spanning distances so vast, sometimes it may feel even worse than finding a needle in a haystack. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Dwarf planet Ceres' 'lonely mountain' mystery has been solved
Description	With help from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists show that Ceres' tallest peak, Ahuna Mons, formed when a blob of rocky mud rose to the surface and froze. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	The Universe is 14 Billion Years Old But Visible Universe is 92 Billion Light Years Wide – NextBigFuture.com
Description	The Universe is 13.7 billion years old.... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Improved Telescope to Directly Image Alpha Centauri Exoplanets and Other Exoplanet Updates – NextBigFuture.com
Description	1. Newly-built planet-finding instrument installed on Very Large Telescope aims to be first to directly image a habitable exoplanet. The instrument, called NEAR (Near Earths in the AlphaCen Region), is designed to hunt for exoplanets in our neighbouring star system, Alpha Centauri, within the “habitable zones” of its two Sun-like stars, where water could potentially exist in liquid form. It has been developed over the last three years and was built in collaboration with the University of Uppsala in Sweden, the University of Liège in Belgium, the California Institute of Technology in the US, and Kampf Telescope Optics in Munich, Germany.... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life
Description	Mars, it appears, is belching a large amount of a gas that could be a sign of microbes living on the planet today. NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered startlingly high amounts of methane in the Martian air, a gas that on Earth is usually produced by living things.  #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	SpaceX is about to launch 152 dead people's remains into orbit aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket
Description	A company called Celestis has tucked small pods of cremated "participants" into a spacecraft that will also carry NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Dell deals: Save on Dell G5, XPS and Alienware gaming laptops - CNET
Description	And a VR-ready Alienware Aurora desktop, too. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Carnival of Space 616 – NextBigFuture.com
Description	The Carnival of Space 616 is up at Every Day Spacer... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Carnival of Space 615 – NextBigFuture.com
Description	Carnival of Space 615 is up at Urban Astronomer.... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Poll finds Americans are worried about asteroids, don’t care about the Moon
Description	As we creep closer to the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, NASA is doing its best to drum up support for a return mission that would see its astronauts once again roaming the lunar surface.  #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	NASA wants astronauts to go back to the moon in 2024. Is it possible?
Description	Only a few months ago, NASA officials were still hashing out plans for a slow-and-steady return to the moon in 2028. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	Mysterious glowing light on Mars captured by Nasa's Curiosity probe
Description	A photograph taken by Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars has captured a mysterious bright glow on a distant Martian hillside. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	22 June 2019

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Name	‘Concept to Reality’: NASA Marks Milestones in Development of Electric X-57 \| Technology Org
Description	X-57 project has marked two critical milestones, taking two major steps toward demonstrating the benefits of electric propulsion for aviation. More general aviation aircraft are in the air every year, which means that the challenge to address aircraft efficiency, noise and emissions becomes great #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Apollo moon rocks may unlock more secrets about our solar system
Description	NASA hopes modern tools and techniques will bring fresh discoveries from rocks that astronauts collected in 1972. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	NASA’s portable atomic clock could revolutionize space travel \| Science News
Description	An atomic clock designed to enable self-driving spaceships and GPS-like navigation on other planets is about to take a yearlong test flight. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	This Could Be the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovered Yet \| Gizmodo UK
Description	Scientists have discovered a pair of temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet candidates around a nearby star, according to a new paper. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Mars 2020 Rover Gets Its Wheels \| Technology Org
Description	In this image, taken on June 13, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the starboard legs and wheels — otherwise known as the mobility suspension — on the Mars 2020 rover. They installed the port suspension later that day. "Now that's a Mars rove #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Look, No Hands! NASA’s First Astrobee Robot “Bumble” Starts Flying in Space \| Technology Org
Description	On June 14, a robot named Bumble became the first Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space. Astrobee is a free-flying robot system that will help researchers test new technologies in zero gravity and perform routine work alongside astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Robots t #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings \| Technology Org
Description	The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — but they’re surprisingly bright in new heat images of the planet taken by two large telescopes in the high deserts of Chile. The thermal glow gives astronomers another window onto the r #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Bill Nye Explains LightSail 2, the Planetary Society’s Solar Sailing Mission
Description	Launching June 24, The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 will be a milestone in spaceflight, the first craft to raise its orbit around the planet using just the power of sunlight. We grilled Bill Nye on just how it works, and what it means for the future of spaceflight. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Apollo moon rocks may unlock more secrets about our solar system
Description	NASA has selected nine teams to study moon rocks that Apollo 17 astronauts collected on the lunar surface in 1972. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy ready to fly, Stratolaunch plane put up for sale \| Ars Technica
Description	"We're predicting a really brutal consolidation of the small-launch-vehicle market." #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Exclusive: NATO aims to make space new frontier in defense
Description	NATO aims to recognize space as a domain of warfare this year, four senior diplomats said, partly to show U.S. President Donald Trump that the alliance is relevant and adapting to new threats after he signed off on the creation of a U.S. Space Force. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Buzz Aldrin reminds world that he took first space selfie - CNET
Description	The astronaut beat the selfie trend by decades with an out-of-this-world 1966 photo. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	NASA Sets Tentative Date For Launching Astronauts In SpaceX Ship
Description	SpaceX is targeting November 15th as a tentative date to launch its astronaut-ferrying Crew Dragon spacecraft to the ISS according to NASA. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	This Bizarre Device Will Help Rescue Injured Astronauts on the Moon
Description	The European Space Agency just tested out a device that's meant to assist in astronaut rescue missions on the surface of the Moon. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Hey, Want to Watch This Satellite Melt?
Description	For a cleaner atmosphere, some things must burn. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	NASA gives the Mars 2020 rover its legs and wheels
Description	The Mars 2020 rover is looking more and more like an actual rover, now that there's only a year left before its target launch date. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers have installed the vehicle's starboard legs and six wheels (aka its mobility suspension) on June 13th. The machine's wheels are made of aluminum with 48 cleats machined onto their surface.  #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Bezos says Blue Origin will one day refuel its lunar lander with ice from the moon
Description	Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos gave more insight into his space company's lunar plans on Wednesday. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite' Mixes Magic of J.K. Rowling's Universe With 'Pokémon Go' Gameplay
Description	The free-to-play AR mobile game hopes to match the massive success of Niantic's pocket monster-catching blockbuster. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Gorgeous 'Atlas of Space' Smashes the Textbook View of the Solar System
Description	Biologist Eleanor Lutz's maps of space crush the idea that the solar system is just nine circles in a row. Try 18,000 circles. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Astronomers Confirm the Low Density of Kepler Exoplanets
Description	Astronomers have confirmed the very low densities of two of Kepler-9's planets using both transit-timing and radial velocity methods. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	21 June 2019

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Name	Americans aren’t interested in the Moon and Mars—and that’s understandable \| Ars Technica
Description	After 15 years and $50 billion, we haven't really gotten that far. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Introducing NASA Explorers: Apollo, an Audio Series Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 \| Technology Org
Description	NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission with the release of the audio series NASA Explorers: Apollo. Twelve people walked on the lunar surface, but thousands more have contributed to our understanding of the Moon. NASA Explorers: Apollo tells lesser-known stories ab #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Astronomers make first detection of polarised radio waves in Gamma Ray Burst jets \| Technology Org
Description	Good fortune and cutting-edge scientific equipment have allowed scientists to observe a Gamma Ray Burst jet with a radio telescope and detect the polarisation of radio waves within it for the first time - moving us closer to an understanding of what causes the universe’s most powerful explosions. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Russian scientists complain they can’t get semen samples from space because 'no cosmonauts want to'
Description	RUSSIAN cosmonauts are refusing to hand over their semen to the Kremlin. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	This Could Be the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovered Yet
Description	Scientists have discovered a pair of temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet candidates around a nearby star, according to a new paper. What makes this planetary system stand out from all the others discovered in recent years is just how similar one of its planets may be to Earth. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Now you can quote the Marvel Cinematic Universe like the Bible - CNET
Description	The MCU Bible organizes lines from Iron Man to Avengers: Endgame like scripture. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	New space mission could intercept another interstellar visitor like Oumuamua - CNET
Description	The European Space Agency hopes to visit another comet, or perhaps an object coming from even deeper in space. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Scientists Find the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever — and It’s Nearby
Description	A newly-discovered exoplanet called Teegarden b is more similar to Earth than any other world scientists have spotted so far. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

#54

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Name	Fresh Crater Spied on Mars — and It Looks Spectacular
Description	Mars got whacked. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	An Ambitious Search for Aliens Came Up Short, so Astrobiologists Are Thinking Bigger \| Gizmodo UK
Description	If at first you don’t succeed, try again – but with better tools and refined techniques. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	What's happening inside Saturn's rings? The Cassini mission dove between them to find out
Description	During the final year of NASA's Cassini mission before it completed a "death dive" into Saturn's atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet's rings. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Stunning NASA image reveals mysterious ice mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres that scientists say is like 'nothing humanity has ever seen before'
Description	The mountain, Ahuna Mons, may be evidence of a mud bubble from deep inside the planet that froze over after breaching the surface, NASA says. It was observed by the Dawn mission. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Mars has meteors to thank for its wispy clouds
Description	Mars isn't exactly known for being a cloudy place. It's dry, dusty, and barren, but the planet does indeed have a bit of cloud cover. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Rocket Engineers Put a Satellite in a Plasma Wind Tunnel And Melted It For Science
Description	Engineers have captured some eye-popping footage of one of the densest parts of a satellite getting fried into vapour inside an ultra-hot plasma wind tunnel. They destroyed it in the name of science, of course. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Incredible Cold War spy satellite images reveal horrifying extent of Himalayan glacier loss
Description	GLACIERS in the Himalayas are melting at double the pace, according to researchers who have used Cold War spy satellite images to compare the conditions back then to now. Scientists compared old photographs of glaciers taken during a US spy programme with recent spacecraft observations and found that melting in the area has doubled over the past 40 years. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	SpaceX Starlink: why Elon Musk's satellite constellation controversial - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Description	SpaceX’s ambitious project to provide broadband connections to hard-to-reach areas of the planet has got some commentators worried about light pollution, space junk and the future of astronomy. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	Crazy Space Facts That'll Mess With Your Head
Description	Know what happens when two pieces of the same metal touch in space? Or which planet spins sideways? Get ready for some pretty mind-blowing space facts. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	NASA Mars 2020 Rover gets new wheels - CNET
Description	The new Mars Rover finally has a set of legs to stand on. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	20 June 2019

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Name	How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets \| New Scientist
Description	Earth's nearest neighbours have turned into uninhabitable hellholes. Understanding their transformation will teach us which rocky exoplanets might be fit for life #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Scientists 'fail to find' alien life in scans of 1,300 stars – but say they're not giving up yet
Description	ASTRONOMERS performing the biggest search for alien life have come back empty handed so are making all the data they have collected public in the hope of someone else spotting something. This will be the biggest set of data to ever be made public in the search for alien life and it comes from the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	New Mars crater turns the red planet black and blue
Description	A big space rock slammed the red planet, leaving behind a cosmic work of art. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	New Mars crater turns the red planet black and blue - CNET
Description	A big space rock slammed the red planet, leaving behind a cosmic work of art. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Harvard Scientists: Radiation From Black Holes May Create Life
Description	Instead of creating "dead zones," the radiation from black holes could facilitate the emergence of life on a nearby planet, according to a Harvard study. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Marvel's Netflix Universe Is Dead, But Its Legacy Lives On
Description	The end of Marvel's superhero universe on Netflix is a big deal for the streaming service, but let's not forget how much bigger of a deal it was when it first launched, and the far-reaching effects of that grand experiment that changed the streaming landscape for years to come. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	No Signs of Aliens in the Closest 1,300 Stars, Hunt Funded by Russian Billionaire Reveals
Description	The most comprehensive search for alien signals has yet to find something to write home about. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Meet 'The Natter,' Nazi Germany's Wooden Rocket Plane
Description	Designed to shoot down Allied bombers, the Natter was too late—and maybe too weird—to affect the outcome of the war. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Voracious Black Holes Could Feed Alien Life on Rogue Worlds
Description	Black holes are engines of destruction on a cosmic scale, but they may also be the bringers of life. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Oldest Known Galactic Get-Together Occurred Shortly After Big Bang
Description	Signals from the early universe, originating around 13 billion years ago, reveal the oldest known merger between two galaxies. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Two Earth-Like Alien Planets Spotted Orbiting Nearby Star
Description	You can add two new entries to the growing list of potentially habitable exoplanets. Astronomers have spotted a pair of ... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	NASA's Artemis program will give us the first female moonwalker
Description	The Artemis program aims to put astronauts on the lunar surface in 2024, but success isn't certain. Artemis faces political, budgetary and technological hurdles. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Sally Ride became the 1st American woman in space 36 years ago today
Description	Today marks the 36th anniversary of Sally Ride's famous trip into space. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	A vegan meat revolution could help save the planet \| Technology Org
Description	A few years ago, convincing meat-free “meat” was nothing more than a distant dream for most consumers. Meat substitutes in supermarkets lacked variety and quality. Plant-based burgers were few and far between in major fast food outlets – and meaty they were not. But realistic alternatives to envi #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	NASA’s asteroid probe snapped its closest photo yet of space rock Bennu
Description	NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is giving scientists an even better look at the surface of the space rock known as Bennu now that it's moved even closer to the object.  #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Astronomers just observed two galaxies merging, 13 billion years ago
Description	It's thought to be the earliest known example of merging galaxies yet discovered. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Apollo astronauts celebrate 50 years since first moon landing
Description	Three astronauts instrumental in the groundbreaking U.S. space program of the 1960s and 70s gathered at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the mission that first put a man on the moon. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Location-level processes drive the establishment of alien bird populations worldwide \| Nature
Description	TBD #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	NASA Reflects on Legacy of LRO as Moon-Orbiting Mission Reaches 10-Year Anniversary \| Technology Org
Description	5:32 p.m. Eastern Time on June 18, 2019, marks 10 years since the launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Its contributions to the fields of lunar science and exploration are unmatched: it has provided the largest volume of data ever collected by a planetary science mission. The div #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	New report finds NASA awarded Boeing large fees despite SLS launch slips \| Ars Technica
Description	"It would be misleading for us to continue to report the June 2020 launch date." #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Declassified satellite images show how Himalayan glaciers have shrunk \| Ars Technica
Description	And the rate of ice loss is increasing. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Hope in search for alien life as scientists discover two Earth-like planets orbiting nearby star
Description	TWO newly found planets within our galaxy are now prime targets in our search for alien life. The mystery worlds sit near one of our closest neighbouring stars, Teegarden, and both may have atmospheres capable of supporting living creatures. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Philippine Space Agency: From A Dream To Reality \| Asian Scientist Magazine \| Science, technology and medical news updates from Asia
Description	Now that the Philippine Space Agency law is just a signature away from reality, we talked to two of the main persons behind the legislation, Dr. Rogel Mari Sese and Senator Bam Aquino. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Gov. Watchdog: NASA Hid True Cost of Boeing Moon Rocket
Description	A new report fings that NASA has been downplaying the expected costs of its missions while rewarding contractors despite preventable delays #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Scientists are looking to space to get more earthquake data
Description	Scientists are using satellites to compile the most efficient response information. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock Will Transform Space Exploration
Description	A technology demonstration that could transform the way humans explore space is nearing its target launch date of June 24, 2019. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Astronomers Discover Cool Halo Gas Spinning Like Galactic Disks
Description	Astronomers discovered cosmic choreography among star-forming galaxies; their cool halo gas appears to be in step with the galactic disks, spinning in the same direction. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Astronomers Peer Back 13 Billion Years and See Two Galaxies Colliding \| Gizmodo UK
Description	A research team in Japan has spotted what might be the most distant, and therefore the youngest, example of merging galaxies ever observed. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	NASA Administrator Confirms SpaceX Explosion Will Delay Launches
Description	It has been almost two months since a SpaceX Dragon II capsule exploded during testing, and NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine ... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	NASA’s Fermi mission reveals record-setting gamma-ray bursts \| Technology Org
Description	For 10 years, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the universe’s most luminous explosions. A new catalog of the highest-energy blasts provides scientists with fresh insights into how they work. “Fermi is an ongoing experiment that keeps producin #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Why NASA Is Experimenting with Deep Space Atomic Clocks
Description	The GPS-like devices could shave time off current missions. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	NASA wants robots to sniff out moon pits for future lunar habitats
Description	With NASA funding, researchers are working to build robots that can explore moon pits, sinkhole-like structures that could even make good astronaut homes. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	More Cost Overruns Realistically Means Space Launch System Requires Congress to Reauthorize – NextBigFuture.com
Description	There are continuing production and testing problems for the Space Launch System, Orion and ground systems. There are more delays and budget overruns. If these delays and cost overruns are realistically assessed then it will surpass the 30% overrun level that would force NASA to go to the US Congress for re-authorization.... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	19 June 2019

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Name	Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
Description	“We will eventually see if they are actually habitable and, perhaps, even inhabited,” astronomers predict. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Orbit Fab becomes first startup to supply water to ISS, paving the way for satellite refueling
Description	Not even two years into its existence, orbital fuel supply startup Orbit Fab has chalked up a big win – successfully supplying the International Space Station with water, a first for any private company. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	NASA to launch tiny satellites to study 'bubbles' in upper atmosphere
Description	The twin "cubesats" will be among a total of 24 satellites launching aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket as it soars into space for the third time. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Finds Fresh Crater on Red Planet
Description	Mars is home to dust storms, several robots, and as of today, a new crater. Images from the Mars Reconnaissance ... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	CARMENES finds two temperate Earth-mass planets around a nearby small star \| Technology Org
Description	Researchers from the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC — Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) have participated in an international study carried out by the CARMENES consortium, which has discovered two small, terrestrial planets around Teegarden’s Star. The planets have masses si #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	NASA spacecraft snaps detailed asteroid picture from closest orbit yet
Description	NASA’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft OSIRIS-REx just snapped its closest picture yet of Bennu, the deep-space rock it’s been hovering around since the end of last year. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	NASA is going to fire an atomic clock into space so astronauts know where they’re going
Description	As NASA and other organizations begin to lay the groundwork for crewed missions to places other than an orbiting space station or even the Moon. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Saturn Next to the Moon Tonight - What Planet is Visible Tonight?
Description	Here's how to see Saturn (and maybe even its rings) from your backyard. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Are Russian space satellites failing? It’s now harder to find out \| Ars Technica
Description	Information about satellite health will now be "For Official Use Only." #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	NASA Wants to Build a 'Starshade' to Hunt Alien Planets
Description	TBD #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	NASA Photographs Asteroid That Could Smash Into Earth in 22nd Century
Description	NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just zipped really close to tiny asteroid Bennu to snap an incredibly detailed image. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Spectacular New Crater Discovered on Mars \| Gizmodo UK
Description	The crater is located in the Valles Marineris region near the equator, and was formed at some point between September 2016 and February 2019. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Bennu Asteroid Photos - NASA Takes Record-Breaking Close Asteroid Photo
Description	The image was captured a mere 0.4 miles from Bennu's surface. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Very Large Telescope Gears Up to Hunt Exoplanets in Alpha Centauri
Description	Astronomers around the world were thrilled in 2016 when the European Southern Observatory announced the discovery of an exoplanet around ... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	SpaceX Super Heavy Starship Presentation in July 2019 – NextBigFuture.com
Description	Elon Musk will likely have a Super Heavy Starship presentation in July, 2019. It will be after the first successful untethered hop tests for the Starhopper.... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Asteroid Day 2019 Promotion and NASA, ESA Lists of Asteroid Impact Risks – NextBigFuture.com
Description	Asteroid Day is June 28. It is the official United Nations’ day of global awareness and education about asteroids. Redbubble is the largest global marketplace for independent artists. They are partnering to inspire the world about asteroids.... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Optimizing operations for an unprecedented view of the universe \| Technology Org
Description	Under construction on a remote ridge in the Chilean Andes, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will boast the world’s largest digital camera, helping researchers detect objects at the solar system’s edge and gain insights into the structure of our galaxy and the nature of dark energy. The te #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe \| Technology Org
Description	Scientists may need to rethink their estimates for how many planets outside our solar system could host a rich diversity of life. In a new study, a UC Riverside–led team discovered that a buildup of toxic gases in the atmospheres of most planets makes them unfit for complex life as we know it. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	NASA Scientists Find Sun’s History Buried in Moon’s Crust \| Technology Org
Description	The Sun is why we’re here. It’s also why Martians or Venusians are not. When the Sun was just a baby four billion years ago, it went through violent outbursts of intense radiation, spewing scorching, high-energy clouds and particles across the solar system. These growing pains helped seed life on #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	NASA to launch tiny satellites to study 'bubbles' in Earth's upper atmosphere
Description	NASA will launch two E-TBEx cubesats to help scientists understand how so-called structured bubbles in Earth's upper atmosphere can disrupt radio signals. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	50 Years Ago: One Month til Apollo 11 Liftoff \| Technology Org
Description	The achievement of President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth was just one month away. Between May 18 and 26, 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan, and John W. Young successfully carried out a dress rehearsal for the #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Asteroid 'like nothing that humanity has ever seen before' imaged by Nasa
Description	IMAGES of Ceres, a dwarf planet about 250million miles from Earth, showcase a highly unusual mountain jutting from its "streaky" surface. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Strawberry full moon glows pink across the world in spectacular solstice treat for skygazers
Description	TBD #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	18 June 2019

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Name	Icy Martian Clouds Are Formed from the 'Smoke' of Dead Meteors, Study Claims
Description	The icy blue wisps that dot the Martian skies may actually be made up of water vapor and meteoric 'smoke.' #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Pea Burgers Taste Fantastic. They Can Also Help Save the Planet. (Op-Ed)
Description	Nonmeat burgers are surprisingly delicious. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	How to detect life on Mars \| MIT News
Description	MIT graduate student Angel Mojarro synthesized soils representing different regions on Mars in order to find out whether Search for Extraterrestrial Genome instruments could extract and detect small amounts of DNA embedded in those soils. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	UK company will scatter your ashes in space for less than £1000, watch the video to see how they do it
Description	Ascension Flights' space-age send offs start at £795 with the priciest coming in at £3000 #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Final snaps taken by Nasa's Cassini probe reveal mystery shapes in Saturn's rings
Description	NASA has released new analysis data from its Cassini probe mission and it shows that Saturn’s rings are very grainy in texture. Scientists think that the rings contain tiny moons, which cause materials to cluster and form visible clumps. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Firefly opens first Alpha rocket launch to academic and educational payloads \| Ars Technica
Description	Company appears to be taking its commitment to STEM to another level. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Starwatch: As the sun passes solstice elusive Mercury comes into view
Description	Mercury will be as far to the east of the sun as it ever gets, and can be found low in the western sky just after sunset #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	NASA to land 1st woman on moon as part of Artemis mission
Description	NASA's project aims to bring human beings back to the moon by 2024 #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	NASA's spacecraft is orbiting closer to an asteroid than ever before
Description	In the dark and lonely place that is space, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has managed to reach a new level of proximity as it studies an asteroid. After a maneuver, the spacecraft in NASA's asteroid study mission is orbiting closer to a planetary body than any spacecraft has ever come, the space agency said. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Hubble Image of the Week - Irregular Galaxy IC 10
Description	This image shows an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a member of the Local Group — a collection grouping of over 50 galaxies within our cosmic neighbourhood. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	How a ‘Moon Rock Hunter’ Is Tracking Down Apollo Lunar Souvenirs \| Technology News
Description	Beginning with Apollo 11, which landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, and ending with Apollo 17, in December 1972, US astronauts collected 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of rocks and lunar soil. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Strawberry Moon 2019: Best times to watch and a special viewing bonus
Description	The Strawberry Moon for 2019 has arrived. Find out why this full moon gets its name and the best places to watch one. There's also a special viewing bonus: Jupiter! #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Startup is developing tools to treat astronauts in space
Description	RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Space flight has been a lifelong passion for Dr. C. Marsh Cuttino. As a child growing up in Richmond, he had ambitions of becoming an astronaut. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	A New Instrument Is Actively Searching For More Planets Around Alpha Centauri
Description	Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers discovered an exoplanet orbiting one of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Why June’s strawberry moon is the most colorful full moon of the year
Description	Look up and you just might catch June’s full strawberry moon. Taking a low shallow path across the sky, the strawberry moon is the most colorful of the year. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	How Bad Are Rocket Launches for the Environment? - Videos - Seeker
Description	Watch How Bad Are Rocket Launches for the Environment?, an Earth video from Seeker. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Atomic Clock Will Help Navigation for Mars Missions – NextBigFuture.com
Description	An atomic clock small enough to fly on a space mission but precise enough to give accurate directions could eliminate the need for 4-20 minute two-way communication delays for Mars missions. Future navigators would send a signal from Earth to a spacecraft. Like its Earthly cousins, the Deep Space Atomic Clock onboard would measure the amount of time it took that signal to reach it. The spacecraft could then calculate its own position and trajectory, essentially giving itself directions.... #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Subaru Telescope Snaps Pictures Of Nearly 2,000 Supernovae \| Asian Scientist Magazine \| Science, technology and medical news updates from Asia
Description	Scientists in Japan have identified about 1,800 new supernovae using the Subaru Telescope equipped with an 870 megapixel digital camera. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	When is the next full moon? June's Strawberry Moon and 2019 lunar calendar revealed
Description	RIPENING strawberries give their name to a reddish lunar phenomenon - but it's not the only extraordinary moon in store #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	New Mars crater exposes mysterious darker material
Description	The Red Planet was hit by an asteroid sometime within the past three years and the resulting crater has exposed a "darker material" underneath Mars' reddish dust that is currently perplexing scientists. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	China reveals scientific experiments for its next space station
Description	TBD #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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Name	Watch a chunk of satellite melt like a marshmallow on fire - CNET
Description	European Space Agency researchers go all Raiders of the Lost Ark on a satellite piece. #Astronautics
Field	# Astronautics
Updated	17 June 2019

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