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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-289&rn=news.xml&rst=7306: See a Passing Comet This Sunday
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14 Dec 2018, 16:48 UTC On Sunday, Dec. 16, the comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest comet flybys of Earth in 70 years, and you may even be able to see it without a telescope. Although the approach will be a distant 7.1 million miles (11.4 million kilometers, or 30 lunar distances) from Earth, it's still a fairly rare opportunity. "This will be the closest comet Wirtanen has come to Earth for centuries and the closest it will come to Earth for centuries," said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. What's more, Chodas said, "This could be one of the brightest comets in years, offering astronomers an important opportunity to study a comet up close with ground-based telescopes, both optical and radar."
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/hubble-goes-deep: Hubble Goes Deep
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14 Dec 2018, 14:45 UTC This image from the Hubble Deep UV (HDUV) Legacy Survey encompasses 12,000 star-forming galaxies in a part of the constellation Fornax known as the GOODS-South field. With the addition of ultraviolet light imagery, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the largest panoramic view of the fire and fury of star birth in the distant universe.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2018/a2597/: Cosmic Fountain Powered by Giant Black Hole
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13 Dec 2018, 20:10 UTC
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-288&rn=news.xml&rst=7305: Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space
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13 Dec 2018, 18:46 UTC On Nov. 26, NASA's InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long) landing ellipse on Mars. Now, the team has pinpointed InSight's exact location using images from HiRISE, a powerful camera onboard another NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
http://hubblesite.org/feed/NewsRelease-1166-1544714163: In Search of Missing Worlds, Hubble Finds a Fast Evaporating Exoplanet
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13 Dec 2018, 15:00 UTC
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-286&rn=news.xml&rst=7303: NASA's Juno Mission Halfway to Jupiter Science
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12 Dec 2018, 19:09 UTC On Dec. 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA's Juno spacecraft will be 3,140 miles (5,053 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops and hurtling by at a healthy clip of 128,802 mph (207,287 kilometers per hour). This will be the 16th science pass of the gas giant and will mark the solar-powered spacecraft's halfway point in data collection during its prime mission.
http://www.almaobservatory.org/?p=28268: ALMA Campaign Provides Unprecedented Views of the Birth of Planets
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12 Dec 2018, 13:58 UTC Astronomers have already cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though we have learned much about these newfound worlds, there is still much we do not know about the steps of planet formation and the precise cosmic recipes that spawn the wide array of planetary bodies we have already uncovered, including so-called hot Jupiters, massive rocky worlds, icy dwarf planets, and – hopefully someday soon – distant analogs of Earth.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1840/: Dancing with the Enemy
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12 Dec 2018, 13:00 UTC While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers were able to capture dramatic details of the turbulent stellar relationship in the binary star R Aquarii with unprecedented clarity — even compared to observations from Hubble.
f0cf2d91a76d2eaa5d067f3f840d43da: Rosetta witnesses birth of baby bow shock around comet
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12 Dec 2018, 11:00 UTC A new study reveals that, contrary to first impressions, Rosetta did detect signs of an infant bow shock at the comet it explored for two years – the first ever seen forming anywhere in the Solar System.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-285&rn=news.xml&rst=7302: NASA's InSight Takes Its First Selfie
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11 Dec 2018, 20:12 UTC NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie - a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA's Curiosity rover mission, in which many overlapping pictures are taken and later stitched together. Visible in the selfie are the lander's solar panel and its entire deck, including its science instruments.

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