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Jupiter Saturn conjunction: How to see the ‘Christmas star’ of 2020 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Get ready for 21 December 2020, when the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn brings them closest in the night sky since 1623

By David Aragorn
Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on U.S. mission around the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Canada will for the first time send an astronaut to circle the moon on a U.S. mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said on Wednesday, announcing a formal deal with Washington.

By David Aragorn
Hayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsule 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Scientists have been greeted by the sight of jet black chunks of rock and soil from an asteroid after opening a capsule that returned from deep space a week ago.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 16, 2020
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes — that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system.

By David Aragorn
Fargo’s most famous UFO sighting happened in the skies above a Bison football game 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- December 16, 2020
As the NDAC (now NDSU) Bison took on the Augustana Vikings on a crisp fall evening in 1948, if fans looked up, they might have caught a glimpse of an even-more spectacular show in the nightime sky — a dogfight between a former WWII fighter pilot and an unidentified flying object that would go down as one of the most credible accounts of UFO activity in the country. What exactly happened and did any Bison football fans see it?

By David Aragorn
A newfound feathered dinosaur sported fuzz and weird rods on its shoulders 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 16, 2020
The chicken-sized carnivore is the first feathered dino fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere

By David Aragorn
TESS Discovers Two Small and Warm Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 16, 2020
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered two exoplanets transiting inactive red dwarf stars TOI-122 and TOI-237.

By David Aragorn
Ethics Report Gives France Permission To Create ‘Augmented Soldiers’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 16, 2020
The French military has just received the all-clear to produce “augmented soldiers’ following a report from the ethical committee of the armed forces ministry. The report considers the use of prosthetics, medical treatments, and implants that either enhance “physical, cognitive, perceptive and psychological capacities” orthat could connect to other soldiers or weapon systems, and notes that other countries are already working on such advancements and France should be allowed to keep up.

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s central black hole may have turned nearby red giant stars blue 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2020
A powerful blast from the supermassive black hole may explain a lack of large, red stars there

By David Aragorn
Bizarre alien world may be analog of our solar system’s putative Planet Nine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2020
HD 106906 b is interesting for many reasons.

By David Aragorn