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https://www.astrobio.net/?p=62786: International team agrees on a natural origin for ʻOumuamua
Astrobiology Magazine

Direct link International team agrees on a natural origin for ʻOumuamua

16 Jul 2019, 19:55 UTC A team of international asteroid and comet experts now agree that ʻOumuamua, the first recorded interstellar visitor, has natural origins.
https://www.space.com/wfirst.html: What Is NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)?
SPACE.com

Direct link What Is NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)?

16 Jul 2019, 17:10 UTC The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is NASA's next flagship telescope. Expected to launch in the mid-2020s, this instrument will give astronomers a clearer and more expansive view of the universe than ever before, with the ultimate goal of answering some of the biggest mysteries in space.
https://www.geekwire.com/?p=507841: 50 years after Apollo 11, unsung heroes of Mission Control ponder past and future of the final frontier
Geekwire

Direct link 50 years after Apollo 11, unsung heroes of Mission Control ponder past and future of the final frontier

16 Jul 2019, 15:51 UTC Fifty years ago, it took a special kind of person to work in NASA’s Apollo Mission Control: Take Gerry Griffin and Milt Windler, for example.
https://medium.com/p/f61f3873bd08: This Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Definition Of ‘Planet’
Starts With a Bang!

Direct link This Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Definition Of ‘Planet’

16 Jul 2019, 15:23 UTC If you were alive in 2006, you likely remember a momentous event in astronomy: the International Astronomical Union (IAU) took it upon themselves to redefine what it meant to be a planet. While eight of the nine classical planets in our Solar System were still in, from Mercury to Neptune, the smallest and most distant among them — Pluto — was out.
2210010-mystery-of-universes-expansion-deepens-with-new-cosmic-calculation|2210010: Mystery of universe’s expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation
New Scientist

Direct link Mystery of universe’s expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation

16 Jul 2019, 13:43 UTC The question of how fast the universe is expanding just keeps getting more confusing. Our two main methods of measuring the acceleration of the universe’s expansion disagree by nine per cent.
https://www.universetoday.com/?p=142814: A Disk of Debris is Forming Moons Around an Exoplanet. A Proto-Lunar Disk?
Universe Today

Direct link A Disk of Debris is Forming Moons Around an Exoplanet. A Proto-Lunar Disk?

16 Jul 2019, 10:06 UTC Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the disk of debris around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have suspected for a long time that this is how larger planets—like Jupiter in our own Solar System—get their moons. It’s all happening around a very young star named PDS 70, about 370 light years away in the constellation Centaurus.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/?p=8169: Crew and Cargo Rockets Poised for Rollout Ahead of Weekend Launches
NASA Space Station Blog

Direct link Crew and Cargo Rockets Poised for Rollout Ahead of Weekend Launches

15 Jul 2019, 17:48 UTC Two rockets will be rolling out to their launch pads this week in Kazakhstan and Florida to blastoff to the International Space Station. The orbiting Expedition 60 trio will be welcoming three new crewmates Saturday and receive more science experiments and crew supplies next Tuesday, July 23.
2209850-there-arent-enough-space-explosions-to-explain-strange-radio-bursts|2209850: There aren’t enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts
New Scientist

Direct link There aren’t enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts

15 Jul 2019, 16:00 UTC Many of the brightest, weirdest phenomena in space come from cataclysmic events like explosions or collisions. But many fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most mysterious space signals we’ve seen, must not. That might mean that they are all part of a class of FRB that we previously thought might be rare.
https://medium.com/p/e6b96537540b: New Method For Tracing Dark Matter Reveals Its Location, Abundance As Never Before
Starts With a Bang!

Direct link New Method For Tracing Dark Matter Reveals Its Location, Abundance As Never Before

15 Jul 2019, 15:16 UTC Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe, displaying its effects in every massive, large-scale cosmic structure. It neither emits nor absorbs light like normal matter does, but its gravitational impact is undeniable.
https://www.spaceanswers.com/?p=13503: Astronomers explore the hypothetical world of exomoon expulsion
All About Space

Direct link Astronomers explore the hypothetical world of exomoon expulsion

15 Jul 2019, 10:06 UTC Researchers led by Mario Sucerquia, from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, and Jaime Alvarado-Montes from Australia’s Macquarie University, modelled the likely behaviour of giant exomoons predicted to form around massive planets – and discovered that they would be expelled and sent packing.

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