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Scientists reveal Southern Ring Nebula's unexpected structure: 'We were amazed'
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe two lobes of the Southern Ring have a narrow, or "pinched," waistline, like an hourglass, which...
Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
The New York Sun· 3 days agoIn an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University...
Astronomers still haven’t decided if Planet 9 is real
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOthers thought that the shepherd was actually a small black hole instead of a giant planet. More...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 4 days agoWith the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects. A couple of years ago ...
Where Is the Edge of the Solar System?
Scientific American· 1 day agoTake, for example, the solar system. If you picture it in your head, you likely see the sun in the center and a retinue of planets orbiting it. At some...
Why Did Pluto's Atmosphere Continue To Expand As It Moved Away From The Sun?
IFLScience· 5 days agoPluto is a reasonably difficult object to study, lying beyond the orbit of Neptune (for the majority of its orbit) in the Kuiper Belt. Beyond sending a ...
NASA is sending a Flying Dragonfly Rotorcraft to Explore Saturn's Moon Titan
Sci Fi Wire· 6 days agoNot to be outdone, humanity is getting in on the action (minus the annihilation, and firmly...
How Pluto Got Its Heart
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 5 days agoPluto’s most recognizable feature is the giant, heart-shaped area in its southern hemisphere. NASA’s New Horizons mission camera only photographed this...
What The World’s Biggest Digital Camera Will Image In 3.2 Gigapixels
Forbes· 5 days agoFormerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the Rubin Observatory has been constructed...