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Month: October 2018

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Hayabusa2 drops European MASCOT lander onto asteroid Ryugu

3 October 2018 Astronomy Now

A small lander built by the German and French space agencies tumbled to a successful low-gravity landing on the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu after release from Japan’s Hayabusa2 sample return spacecraft.

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Extreme dwarf planet – ‘The Goblin’ – influenced by Planet X?

2 October 2018 Astronomy Now

Astronomers searching the outer solar system for signs of a super Earth-size world beyond Pluto have found another small body in an orbit consistent with the presumed gravitational influence of the presumed Planet X.

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Where are they? Searching for laser beams from ET

2 October 2018 Astronomy Now

A mostly student-run project is studying the Andromeda Galaxy, taking repeated before-and-after photos with relatively small telescopes in hopes of detecting any civilizations using powerful lasers to signal their presence.

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A hidden galaxy seen through a sea of stars

1 October 2018 Astronomy Now

A spectacular view of a “hidden” galaxy seen behind a sea of suns in the Milky Way, an image shortlisted in the 2018 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

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Vast clouds of hydrogen aglow in early cosmos

1 October 2018 Astronomy Now

Vast clouds of atomic hydrogen in the early universe glow an ultraviolet blue in unexpected results indicating Lyman-alpha emissions across the entire sky.

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  • See all the planets in January
    16 January 2023
  • Frank Drake, SETI pioneer, 1930–2022
    3 September 2022
  • Webb images of Jupiter show auroras, rings, moons
    24 August 2022
  • Webb: Stellar nursery in Carina
    12 July 2022
  • Webb: a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions
    12 July 2022
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