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• Breakthrough Listen Releases its one-of-Everything “Exotica” Catalog

  Breakthrough Listen, the largest SETI effort ever mounted, just released a list of over 700 objects that could be of interest to people looking for aliens!

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• One of the Best Pictures Ever Taken of ISS from the Ground. You Can Even See the Canadarm2

  Astrophotographer Thierry Legault is renowned for his amazing shots of spacecraft transiting the Sun. He’s now outdone even himself. On June 24 and 25, 2020, Legault captured the International Space Station passing in front of the Sun with such clarity, even the station’s robotic arm, the Canadarm2, is clearly visible. The docked SpaceX Dragon capsule …

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• Help NASA Develop a Better Space Toilet

  HeroX is one again hosting a NASA challenge, this time to develop a space toilet that will facilitate lunar exploration.

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• Astronomers Might Have Seen a Star Just Disappear. Turning Straight to a Black Hole Without a Supernova

  A brilliant blue star has disappeared from view, which could mean it became a black hole in a novel way.

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• Take a Flight Over Korolev Crater on Mars

  We love flyover videos from other worlds. These stunning videos, created from imagery gathered by orbiting spacecraft, can give us a sense of what it would be like to fly in an airplane on another planet. This latest flyover video from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, provides a stunning view of one of …

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• Behold! The Martian Menu, Courtesy of Mars City Design!

  Every year since 2012, Mars City Design hosts the Mars Feast Gala, where talented chefs create tantalizing entrees based on what future generations could grow on Mars.

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• It Was Almost Certainly an Asteroid Impact that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs. In Fact, Volcanoes Might Have Helped Life Recover

  It seems almost certain that an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs. But only almost. Another competing theory won’t completely go away: the extinction-by-volcano theory. A new study from the UK piles more evidence on the asteroid side of the debate, while adding a new volcanic twist. These researchers say that volcanic activity actually helped …

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• Weekly Space Hangout: July 1, 2020 — Dr. Andrew Siemion, Director of Berkeley SETI Research Center

  This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew Siemion, Director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center, to the WSH. As an astrophysicist, Andrew’s research interests include high energy time-variable celestial phenomena, astronomical instrumentation and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). He is also the Principal Investigator for the Breakthrough Listen program. Andrew received his …

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• This Weekend’s Challenging Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Rounds Out the Summer Season

  The July 4th Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Ends a Rare Triple Eclipse Season

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• Complete and Total Mayhem in a Distant Galaxy Collision

  A cluster of galaxies is nothing trivial. The shocks, the turbulence, the energy, as all of that matter and energy merges and interacts. And we can watch all the chaos and mayhem as it happens. A team of astronomers are looking at the galaxy cluster Abell 2255 with the European Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, …

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