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Welcome to the 597th 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!

Chandra Space Telescope:

• The Whirlpool Galaxy Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

• Cosmology with Quasars

The Hill:

• European Space Agency has sights set on mining the moon

Universe Today:

• Without the Impact that Formed the Moon, We Might Not Have Life on Earth

• Here it is, the high resolution photo of MU69 We’ve all been waiting for.

• Quasars with a Double-Image Gravitational Lens Could Help Finally Figure out how Fast the Universe is Expanding

• What Would be the Benefits of an Interstellar Probe?

• Blue Origin has Shown off a New Video of its New Glenn Rocket Design

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

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