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21549 at: Gemini South Telescope Captures Exquisite Planetary Nebula
Gemini Observatory

Direct link Gemini South Telescope Captures Exquisite Planetary Nebula

6 Apr 2020, 09:54 UTC The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of a giant star and is a glorious but relatively short-lived astronomical spectacle. As the progenitor star of this planetary nebula slowly cools, this celestial hourglass will run out of time and will slowly fade from view over many thousands of years.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-captures-a-cannibal-galaxy: Hubble Captures a Cannibal Galaxy
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Direct link Hubble Captures a Cannibal Galaxy

3 Apr 2020, 12:11 UTC This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t be fooled — it keeps a violent secret. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observe today.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2020-061&rn=news.xml&rst=7628: WFIRST Will Use Warped Space-time to Help Find Exoplanets
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Direct link WFIRST Will Use Warped Space-time to Help Find Exoplanets

1 Apr 2020, 16:31 UTC NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will search for planets outside our solar system toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy, where most stars are. Studying the properties of exoplanet worlds will help us understand what planetary systems throughout the galaxy are like and how planets form and evolve.
4756 at https://www6.slac.stanford.edu: The Milky Way’s satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Direct link The Milky Way’s satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation

31 Mar 2020, 19:43 UTC Just like we orbit the sun and the moon orbits us, the Milky Way has satellite galaxies with their own satellites. Drawing from data on those galactic neighbors, a new model suggests the Milky Way should have an additional 100 or so very faint satellite galaxies awaiting discovery.
https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2005/: Science Release: Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Size Black Hole
Hubble Space Telescope News

Direct link Science Release: Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Size Black Hole

31 Mar 2020, 17:00 UTC
3263 at https://www.ipmu.jp: Electron-eating neon causes star to collapse
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

Direct link Electron-eating neon causes star to collapse

30 Mar 2020, 05:00 UTC An international team of researchers has found that neon inside a certain massive star can eat so many electrons in the core, a process called electron capture, which causes the star to collapse into a neutron star and produce a supernova.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-hooks-a-one-arm-galaxy: Hubble Hooks a One-Arm Galaxy
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Direct link Hubble Hooks a One-Arm Galaxy

27 Mar 2020, 11:30 UTC NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781. Only a year before discovering NGC 4618, Herschel theorized that the “foggy” objects astronomers were seeing in the night sky were likely to be large star clusters located much farther away than the individual stars he could easily discern.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2020-057&rn=news.xml&rst=7624: 10.9 Million Names Now Aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Direct link 10.9 Million Names Now Aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

26 Mar 2020, 19:03 UTC NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency's next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that. The names were stenciled by electron beam onto three fingernail-sized silicon chips, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA's "Name the Rover" contest.The chips were then were attached to an aluminum plate on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 16. Scheduled to launch this summer, Perseverance will land at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2020-056&rn=news.xml&rst=7623: Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features

Direct link Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret

25 Mar 2020, 19:03 UTC Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.The dataset is still the only up-close measurements we have ever made of the planet. Three decades later, scientists reinspecting that data found one more secret.
http://www.nasa.gov/glenn/image-feature/2020/artemis-i-spacecraft-environmental-testing-complete: Artemis I Spacecraft Environmental Testing Complete
NASA Glenn Research Center

Direct link Artemis I Spacecraft Environmental Testing Complete

24 Mar 2020, 18:00 UTC After four months of rigorous testing in the world’s premier space environments simulation facility at NASA’s Plum Brook Station, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission is certified and another step toward being ready for flight.

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