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Welcome to the 571st Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. We have a fantastic roundup today, so now, on to this week’s worth of stories!

NextBigFuture:

• Jupiter has ten more moons bringing the total to 79
• US government should dump SLS and make Turbo rocket instead
• Turbo Rocket Economics are $85/kg to LEO or $715/kg to Luna
• SpaceX BFR could deliver 72 ton large Lunar Ice harvesting machine
• Space Based solar to replace oil using the Nuclear Turbo rocket
• SpaceX Raptor designer has ready for development designs for nuclear rocket that will be up to 7 times better than BFR

The Solstice Blog

• As one planet hunting telescope nears the end of it’s life, another prepares to take over

Universe Today:

• NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will Inspect the Atmospheres of Distant Gas Giants
• Enter the Red Planet: Our Guide to Mars Opposition 2018
• How Fast is the Universe Expanding? Hubble and Gaia Team Up to Conduct the Most Accurate Measurements to Date
• NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter’s Moon Io
• Twelve New Moons Discovered Around Jupiter, and One of Them is Pretty Odd!
• This is a Photo of Neptune, From the Ground! ESO’s New Adaptive Optics Makes Ground Telescopes Ignore the Earth’s Atmosphere
• This Stunning Photo Shows the Martian Dust Storm as it was Just Getting Going

Thank you for all of your stories – we’ll see you next week!

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