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Some Comets are Naked, and One Just Got Caught Photo-Bombing
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The Brightened Night Sky Nobody Actually Wanted
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Gardening the Moon's Cosmic Archives
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NASA Starshade Would Enable Astronomers To Directly Image Rocky Exoworlds
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Racing to Build a Radio Telescope on the Moon
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A New Mission Could Rendezvous With Halley's Comet In 2061
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (115+ words) Halley’s comet captures the imagination in a way that few other astronomical objects do. When it last made its approach toward the Sun (admittedly when this author, who is now middle-aged, was one year old in 1986), humanity responded with a…...
ESA JUICE probe targets dark Jovian moon Kallichore in 2031
1+ week, 6+ day ago (840+ words) accomplish this, the researchers obtained data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gran Telescopio...
The Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin
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What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth
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