#September2016

Hubble captures the death of a Sun-Like Star, it’s a beautiful demise

Hubble reveals NGC 2440

Hubble captures the death of a sun-like star, and we’re all the better for it. Thank you, Hubble. For capturing its glory. Me? I’m either going to die from a fall, or covered in my own feces and surrounded by Pepsi Max cans (regardless of age).

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Astronomers have found a New Planet orbiting closest Star to the Sun!

AstronomerWizards have found a new planet orbiting the closest star to us, Proxima Centauri. This is pretty fantastical news.

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‘Hidden Figures’ Trailer: Three African-American female NASA Engineers help get us into space

Space Swoon: Orion Nebula as captured by the Very Large Telescope

A deep infrared view of the Orion Nebula from HAWK-I

No, seriously. It’s called the Very Large Telescope, and it is responsible for one of the largest and deepest pictures of the nebula ever taken.

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First Commercial Asteroid Mining could start in Three Years; get me to Ceres Station!

Asteroid Mining

Man, I don’t know if I believe the Hype, here. Asteroid mining in three years? Cities in space in thirty years? But, oh, do I want to. Do I ever want to.

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Space Swoon: Hubble catches a Galaxy ready to burst

Watch: One Year of Earth from One-Million Miles Away

Space swoon! Swooning! Over space!

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Massive Planet found within a triple-star system. Take that, Binary Sunset

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Space, man. Constantly taking our notions of what’s possible, farting on them loudly, and then ripping them up and throwing them into the wind. Planet without a triple-star system? Impossible! Except. Not.

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

closing in on jupiter

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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Space Swoon: The Dark Side of…Pluto