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• Teens Hunt for Meteorites . . . Underwater

  Students and a sled named Starfall are on the hunt for underwater meteorites, dropped as a bolide fragmented over Lake Michigan last year.

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• The Beginning of the End for the Hyades Star Cluster

  New measurements from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite show that the young stars of the Hyades cluster are beginning to drift apart.

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• Hayabusa 2 Touches Down, Collects Asteroid Sample

  The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has touched down on Ryugu, the asteroid it's been orbiting since last summer, and collected a sample from its surface.

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• Radio Survey Maps Hundreds of Thousands of New Galaxies

  The LOFAR survey, based in The Netherlands, has released a bonanza of new sources. And with only 2% of the sky covered so far, this is only the beginning.

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• Israeli Lunar Lander Heads to the Moon

  Israel's Beresheet lunar lander was carried to space today on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, headed for a soft landing on the Moon in April.

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• Scientists Find Stellar Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful Than Those on the Sun

  Scientists have caught a powerful flare of submillimeter-wavelength radiation from a young star in the Orion Nebula.

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• Meet Hippocamp, Neptune’s Smallest Moon

  Although first recorded by Hubble in 2004, subsequent imagery shows that this tiny, innermost moon of Neptune likely had had a violent history.

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• NASA to Explore Early Universe, Origins of Life with SPHEREX

  The SPHEREX mission will create multiple surveys of the near-infrared sky that will reveal the origins of life and perhaps the universe itself.

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• Dwarf Galaxy or Giant Globular Cluster?

  AAS Nova brings us the story of a newly discovered cluster of stars. But the jury's out as to whether this group is a typical ancient stellar cluster or something more.

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• Listen Up: Get Gravitational-wave Alerts

  The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) will soon begin a new round of observations. Now you can find out about the discoveries as they happen.

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