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Welcome to the 625th 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!

SetiAtHome Berkeley Forum:

• The Drake Equation: Revisiting a Classic Tool to Estimate the Odds of Contact

Universe Today:

• A Monster Black Hole has been Found with 40 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun
• NASA Tests Water Powered Spacecraft in Orbit
• A Bunch of New Names for Pluto’s Surface Features Were Just Approved
• Traces of One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe Found Inside Another Star
• One Year, Almost 1,000 Planetary Candidates. An Update On TESS

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

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