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The Sky This Week from June 21 to 28: Embrace June’s Strawberry Moon
Astronomy Magazine· 3 hours agoThe Moon covers dwarf planet Ceres, Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) hangs around after dark, and...
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAstronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for...
How long would it take to reach Planet 9, if we ever find it?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSome experts believe that the solar system's hypothetical ninth planet could be just a few years...
Get Ready for the Longest Day of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere
New York Times· 2 days agoOn Thursday, everyone in the northern half of our planet will experience the summer solstice. It’ll...
Saturn Has A Massive Energy Imbalance And It’s Creating Giant Storms
IFLScience· 22 hours agoSaturn’s energy budget has been found to be severely unbalanced. The extent of the difference between energy in and energy out has surprised planetary scientists, even though ...
Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024 – Visionary of the Voyager Era
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoEdward C. Stone, renowned for his leadership of the Voyager spacecraft missions and his role in...
Edward Stone, physicist who oversaw Voyager missions, dies at 88 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 4 days agoTaking advantage of a gravitational convergence of four planets that occurs only once every 176 years, the spacecraft soared past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 4 days agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 3 days agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window on the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium-powered ...