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  The life of Eugene Shoemaker

  skyatnightmagazine.com - Patrick Moore

  Eugene ‘Gene’ Shoemaker, widely regarded as the true founder of the science of astrogeology, was born in Los Angeles and received his early education …

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  Webb telescope nearly set to explore the solar system

  phys.org - Thaddeus Cesari

  As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical …

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  Goodnight moon: spellbinding photographs of the night sky

  

  Curated byFeature Shoot

  From the historic archives of NASA to the edges of the planet Earth, where the Northern Lights dance, we explore the magical reaches of the starry sky at night.

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  These Videos From a Space Probe Flying Past The Sun Are Truly Out of This World

  ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr

  A spacecraft looping around the Sun has made its first close approach – and filmed the encounter in glorious detail. The European Space Agency's (ESA) …

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  Voyager 1 glitch? NASA working to understand strange data from venerable probe

  space.com - Meghan Bartels

  Spending 45 years traversing the solar system really does a number on a spacecraft. NASA's Voyager 1 mission launched in 1977, passed into what …

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  This Huge Underground City May Have Been a Refuge for 70,000 Early Christians

  smithsonianmag.com - Jane Recker

  Persecuted by the Romans, early Christians in what is now Turkey went underground—literally. Archaeologists have found evidence of a massive …