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Godspeed, Ed Stone—the Man Who Showed Us the Solar System
Time via Yahoo News· 6 days agoVoyager 2, which also passed Jupiter and Saturn, would keep flying in the flat, able to...
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoDays after solar storms spurred widespread sightings of auroras across Earth in early May, a new bout of eruptions on the sun brought glowing skies to another ...
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoNow, research published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy offers another hypothesis of...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 18 hours 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 ...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 19 hours agoThis unnervingly close proximity results in a year lasting just 12.8 days and the planet receiving 1.6 times more energy from its star than Earth does from the Sun. Despite ...
Morning frost – on Mars? How a 'surprise' discovery offers new insights
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAn early morning frost has been discovered for the first time atop the tallest volcanoes in the ...
Right Now The Earth Is Technically *Not* Orbiting The Sun
IFLScience· 1 day agoDiagrams and animations showing the orbits of the planets are lying to you a little bit. Or to put...
James Webb telescope reveals 'cataclysmic' asteroid collision in nearby star system
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope has caught a snapshot of two massive asteroids colliding in a nearby...
Planet Vulcan: The 19th Century's Forgotten Ninth Planet, Disproved By Albert Einstein
IFLScience· 3 days agoIn 1846, astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier sat down and attempted to locate a planet...
Voyager 1, After Major Malfunction, Is Back From the Brink, NASA Says
New York Times· 3 days agoSeveral months after a grave computer problem seemed to spell the end for Voyager 1, which for nearly a half century had provided data on the outer planets and the far reaches ...
