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Jupiter’s Stormy North 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 27, 2018
See Jupiter’s northern polar belt region in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

By David Aragorn
Contact Successfully Established With SES-14 Satellite Hosting NASA’s GOLD Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2018
NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD mission launched at 5:20 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 25, as a commercially hosted payload on the SES-14 satellite.

By David Aragorn
U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 25, 2018
Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable surface of Mars have been successful and a full-power run is scheduled for March, officials said on Thursday.

By David Aragorn
Mars Massacre : Linda Moulton Howe and Dr John Brandenburg 0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- January 25, 2018
MARS has been called the Planet of War.

By David Aragorn
The X-ray glow keeps growing after the recent neutron star collision 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2018
Puzzled scientists expected the brightness to fade quickly

By David Aragorn
Chasing dark matter with oldest stars in the Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2018
How an international team of researchers is constraining the speed of invisible and undetectable dark matter

By David Aragorn
TRAPPIST-1 system planets potentially habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2018
Two exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says.

By David Aragorn
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has ‘Sea Level’ Like Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2018
Saturn’s moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are eerily similar.

By David Aragorn
Meteorites recovered from Michigan meteor explosion 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2018
Friday, January 19, 2018, 5:42 PM – Did you see the incredible meteor fireball that flashed across the sky over Windsor-Essex and southern Michigan on Tuesday night? Astronomers from Flint’s Longway Planetarium have actually found fragments meteorites from this bright bolide explosion!

By David Aragorn
New research challenges existing models of black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2018
Chris Packham, associate professor of physics and astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has collaborated on a new study that expands the scientific community’s understanding of black holes in our galaxy and the magnetic fields that surround them.

By David Aragorn