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Special Events

  • April 7, Science Chat (immediately after Daily Space)
    Guest Dr. Stuart Robbins, SWRI
    “Mars Is Red, But Not Unchanging”
  • October 24-25, Hangoutathon 2020
    Information coming soon

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Official Podcast of the
International Year of Astronomy.

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Comet Borisov breaks in two

Comet Borisov breaks in two

Apr 3, 2020 | ,

Comet 2I/Borisov over the last few days. CREDIT: NASA/ESA/D. Jewitt Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Really Is Breaking Apart, According to New Data (Science Alert)Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov Double (Astronomer's Telegram) Switching topics entirely, we have word from...

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Return of NASA “Worm” logo

Return of NASA “Worm” logo

Apr 3, 2020 | , , ,

This is the Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts aboard. CREDIT: NASA NASA brings back its iconic “worm” logo to mark return of human spaceflight (Ars Technica) NASA has announced they are bringing back the classic NASA...

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Star Collapse caused by Neon

Star Collapse caused by Neon

Apr 2, 2020 | , ,

An artist’s impression shows how an imaginary deep-sea fish "football-fish" (having Neon-Sign) eats away at the electrons inside a star core. CREDIT: Kavli IPMU Electron-capture supernova: electron-eating neon causes star collapse (Kavali IPMU) Understanding how stars...

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Hubble finds best mid-sized black hole evidence

Hubble finds best mid-sized black hole evidence

Apr 2, 2020 |

New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this “intermediate-mass” black hole dwells inside a dense star cluster. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble Space Telescope Hubble...

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Carnival of Space #657

Carnival of Space #657

Apr 1, 2020 |

Image credit: © Solarseven This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at NextBigFuture. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #657. And if you’re interested in looking...

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How to see bright Comet ATLAS

How to see bright Comet ATLAS

Mar 31, 2020 | ,

Image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on March 14th, 2020, Canon 6D, Orion CT8 telescope. CREDIT: Martin Gembec at Wikimedia Commons How to see bright Comet ATLAS (Earth and Sky) April and May actually have a lot of potentially cool things to offer. The comet Atlas...

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