space
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An Ode To Spitzer, NASA’s Now-Defunct Space Telescope
Deep space is a harsh, unforgiving place, traversed only by the lonely few. Now, one traveller’s decade-spanning journey through the stars is coming to an end. January 31 marks the last day NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope will broadcast science and engineering data to Earth, closing the final curtain on a trip that first began in…
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Even Planets Have Their (Size) Limits
Scientists have discovered over 4,000 exoplanets outside of our Solar System, according to NASA’s Exoplanet Archive.
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Happy 25th Birthday, Voyager, The Star Trek Of My Heart
As a three-year-old”and also a Brit”I was not particularly paying attention when, 25 years ago today, Star Trek: Voyager began its sojourn out of the Delta Quadrant on UPN. My path to discovering it, and Star Trek at large, was appropriately a bit more circuitous.
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The Best Meteor Showers To See In 2020
Where 2019 was a disappointing year for meteor showers, with two of the big three (the Quadrantids, Perseids and Geminids) lost mainly to moonlight, 2020 promises to be much better.