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was mars one the fyre festival of space startups?

Mars One was an impossible dream. No, literally. As in not possible and could never happen. Now the company is bankrupt and its mission plans abandoned, which is really for the best.
was mars one the fyre festival of space startups?

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how we know the milky way is warped and twisted, and how it got that way

If you imagine galaxies as tranquil clouds of gas and dust, lit up by billions of pinpoints of light, a 3D map of the Milky Way and the details behind it will show you otherwise.
how we know the milky way is warped and twisted, and how it got that way

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oldest earth rock found in lunar exile

Scientists think they found a time capsule from Earth's earliest days buried just under the Moon's surface for the last 4.1 billion years.
oldest earth rock found in lunar exile

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astronomers find a fossil from the early days of the solar system

A tiny, roughly kilometer sized rock might not seem like much of a discovery, but it's an important confirmation of our models of planetary formation and solar system evolution.
astronomers find a fossil from the early days of the solar system

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this weird star system is, literally, flipping awesome

A binary system observed by ALMA isn't wonky, it's the first example of an anomaly we only thought was possible until we saw it with our own eyes: a polar protoplanetary disk.
this weird star system is, literally, flipping awesome

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why the hunt for planet nine is still underway

A recent paper imagines a new explanation for the strange motions of Trans-Neptunian Objects observed by astronomers for the last 200 years, but it doesn't mean that we won't still search for Planet Nine.
why the hunt for planet nine is still underway

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wonky star systems may be born that way

A nearby baby star has been discovered with a warped protoplanetary disk — a feature that may reveal the true nature of the solar system's planetary misalignments
wonky star systems may be born that way

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yes, uranus got wrecked but that's not even the half of it

A massive collision seems to be the only plausible reason why Uranus is the oddball it is, and now we have an idea of what it might have looked like. So what do we do with this data?
yes, uranus got wrecked but that's not even the half of it

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why saturn's majestic rings won't be around for much longer

Saturn's rings are young and might be gone almost as quickly as they appeared in planetary terms, according to the latest research by NASA.
why saturn's majestic rings won't be around for much longer

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the fun, excitement, and challenge of recording alien winds

InSight's recording of Martian winds isn't what you'd hear if you were on the planet yourself. And if you start asking why, you'll find out some bizarre and fascinating things about how winds work on alien worlds.
the fun, excitement, and challenge of recording alien winds

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do we really want to try and terraform mars?

We've dreamt of turning Mars into Earth 2.0 for decades. But is it possible? Or even worth the effort?
do we really want to try and terraform mars?

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why black holes have magnetic storms like stars

New observations of the center of our galaxy have, for the first time, revealed hotspots in the disk of chaotic gas orbiting our Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
why black holes have magnetic storms like stars

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when it's what's on the inside that counts

How do we know what the insides of Venus or Jupiter look like? The short answer is that we don't. The longer answer is that we make a fairly accurately guess.
when it's what's on the inside that counts

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right round, like a black hole baby, right round...

Black holes aren't just the densest, most massive objects in space. They might also be some of the fastest.
right round, like a black hole baby, right round...

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why we need to return to the moon and do the other things

Space is becoming a growing commercial industry. And we need to start heavily investing in it to save ourselves from our worst decision makers.
why we need to return to the moon and do the other things

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