#July2016

Space Swoon: NASA’s Juno spacecraft’s last shot of Jupiter until it’s in orbit

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft is powering down in preparation for its insertion into the gas giant’s orbit. Whatever may come of this attempted insertion, Juno has left the world with one final snapshot of the planet.

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Watch: This animated tribute to NASA’s Voyager Program is all the feels

Space Swoon: NASA’s Juno spacecraft nearly at Jupiter

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I didn’t know about NASA’s spacecraft, Juno. Or that it was damn close to Jupiter. But now I’m aware of both factoids, and eagerly excited.

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Ancient Mars was even more Earth-Like than we thought

Mars.

Mars! The Red Planet! Ares! We’ve known that back in the day, the son of a bitch was similar to Earth. But as we learn more about the planet, it keeps turning out that it was more Earth-Like than imagined. Pretty cool.

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Space Swoon: Full Moon as seen from the International Space Station

Watch: NASA’s time-lapse of Mercury’s transit across the Sun

Space Swoon: NASA releases new “Earthrise” photo from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Space Swoon: On Pluto, Y Marks The Spot

Space Swoon: The Hubble Glimpses the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy

Space Swoon: Hubble finds a stellar fingerprint

Man. Hubble straight up finds all the space-glory, no? Or, at the very least, comma splice, a good amount of it, comma splice, right, question mark.

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