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http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/moon-more-metallic-than-thought: Radar Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Researchers Thought
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Direct link Radar Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Researchers Thought

1 Jul 2020, 16:00 UTC What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon’s formation.
96f2862d7b7e86ccd3cf70ed6aa7b520: The ancient lakeshore of Jezero crater on Mars
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1 Jul 2020, 09:00 UTC An elevation map of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's 2020 Mars Perseverance rover. Lighter colours represent higher elevation.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-tess-delivers-new-insights-into-an-ultrahot-world: NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
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30 Jun 2020, 15:00 UTC Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2010/: A Cosmic Mystery: ESO Telescope Captures the Disappearance of a Massive Star
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30 Jun 2020, 10:00 UTC
https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/5413574/betelgeuse-Jun2020?1593446100: Betelgeuse – a giant with blemishes
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29 Jun 2020, 15:55 UTC Betelgeuse, the bright star in the constellation of Orion, has been fascinating astronomers in the recent months because of its unusually strong decline in brightness. Scientists have been discussing a number of scenarios trying to explain its behaviour. Now a team led by Thavisha Dharmawardena of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have shown that most likely unusually large star spots on the surface of Betelgeuse have caused the dimming. Their results rule out the previous conjecture that it was dust, recently ejected by Betelgeuse, which obscured the star. The results are published today in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-captures-galaxy-on-edge: Hubble Captures Galaxy on Edge
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26 Jun 2020, 12:13 UTC The galaxy known as NGC 5907 stretches wide across this image. Appearing as an elongated line of stars and dark dust, the galaxy is categorized as a spiral galaxy just like our own Milky Way. In this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, we don’t see the beautiful spiral arms because we are viewing it edge-on, like looking at the rim of a plate. It is for this reason that NGC 5907 is also known as the Knife Edge galaxy.
21692 at: Monster Black Hole Found in the Early Universe
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26 Jun 2020, 08:34 UTC Meet Pōniuāʻena: the second most distant quasar ever found containing a black hole so massive it challenges the current theories of supermassive black hole formation and growth in the early Universe.
https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2012/: Photo Release: Hubble Watches the “Flapping” of Cosmic Bat Shadow
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Direct link Photo Release: Hubble Watches the “Flapping” of Cosmic Bat Shadow

25 Jun 2020, 14:00 UTC
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-tess-spitzer-missions-discover-a-world-orbiting-a-unique-young-star: NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
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Direct link NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star

24 Jun 2020, 15:00 UTC For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation. Now scientists using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope report the discovery of a planet about as large as Neptune that circles the young star in just over a week.
https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2007/: IAU Approves Name of Target of First NASA and ESA Planetary Defence Missions
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Direct link IAU Approves Name of Target of First NASA and ESA Planetary Defence Missions

23 Jun 2020, 13:00 UTC

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