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  33. <title>How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids?</title>
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  43. <description><![CDATA[<p>How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids compared to the density of the main belt? Doug KaupaCouncil Bluffs, Iowa Jupiter’s Trojans are asteroids that share the gas giant’s orbit around the Sun, clustering at one of two Lagrange points in the Jupiter-Sun system (L4 or L5, 60° ahead of or behind Jupiter in its orbit,<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/science/how-closely-packed-are-jupiters-trojan-asteroids/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids?"</span></a></p>
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  48. <title>2024 Full Moon calendar: Dates, times, types, and names</title>
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  50. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Parks]]></dc:creator>
  51. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 12:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  58. <description><![CDATA[<p>The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon&#8217;s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/observing/full-moon-calendar-dates-times-types/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"2024 Full Moon calendar: Dates, times, types, and names"</span></a></p>
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  63. <title>A &#8216;shocking&#8217; number of meteorites — and their secrets — are sinking into Antarctic ice due to global warming</title>
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  65. <dc:creator><![CDATA[mnewman]]></dc:creator>
  66. <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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  71. <description><![CDATA[<p>Antarctica has long been loved by astronomers for hosting rocks from outer space — more than 48,000 meteorites cataloged were found here, and about 1,000 new ones are recovered each year, thanks to their dark profiles that are easy to spot on the icy white plains of the frozen continent. However, as human-driven climate change<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/science/a-shocking-number-of-meteorites-and-their-secrets-are-sinking-into-antarctic-ice-due-to-global-warming/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"A &#8216;shocking&#8217; number of meteorites — and their secrets — are sinking into Antarctic ice due to global warming"</span></a></p>
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  84. <description><![CDATA[<p>NASA is scheduled to launch its first&#160;Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test on Monday night. The launch is scheduled for 10:34 pm EDT aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Coverage of the launch begins at 6:30 pm EDT. It will stream live across NASA&#8217;s platforms. The craft will carry NASA<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/nasas-boeing-starliner-is-set-to-launch-soon-heres-what-to-know/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"NASA&#8217;s Boeing Starliner launches soon. Here&#8217;s what to know."</span></a></p>
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  98. <description><![CDATA[<p>When Halley’s Comet flies through the inner solar system every 75 years, it leaves behind a trail of dust and debris. Every year, Earth passes through that trail — once in May and again in October. Each time it does, we see a stunning meteor shower: the Orionids in October, and the Eta Aquariids in<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/observing/see-meteors-from-3000-years-ago/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"How to see meteors from 3,000 years ago this week"</span></a></p>
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  122. <description><![CDATA[<p>Simon Todd from Haywards Heath, U.K. The Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443) in Gemini is a supernova remnant roughly 5,000 light-years distant. This Hubble-palette image was acquired over the course of four months and a total of nearly 24 hours of exposure with an 8-inch scope.</p>
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  142. <link>https://www.astronomy.com/science/searching-for-the-closest-black-holes/</link>
  143. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvette Cendes]]></dc:creator>
  144. <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  153. <description><![CDATA[<p>In a universe full of fascinating and exotic phenomena, few objects challenge the imagination quite like black holes. Discovering new black holes, however, is no easy feat — where do you even begin to look for them? Recent research has found a new category that includes the closest black holes we know of. As an<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/science/searching-for-the-closest-black-holes/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"How do you find a black hole? An astronomer explains the thrilling hunt"</span></a></p>
  154. <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.astronomy.com/science/searching-for-the-closest-black-holes/">How do you find a black hole? An astronomer explains the thrilling hunt</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.astronomy.com">Astronomy Magazine</a>.</p>
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  158. <title>The science behind the &#8216;spiders&#8217; on Mars and the Inca City</title>
  159. <link>https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-science-behind-the-spiders-on-mars-and-the-inca-city/</link>
  160. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gamillo]]></dc:creator>
  161. <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  169. <description><![CDATA[<p>One of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars explorers, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), studies the martian atmosphere and, apparently, “spiders” too. Recently, ESA’s TGO released an image of strange spiderlike topographical features found on the southern polar region of Mars, along with an explanation behind their formation. Another strange, photographed feature was named<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-science-behind-the-spiders-on-mars-and-the-inca-city/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"The science behind the &#8216;spiders&#8217; on Mars and the Inca City"</span></a></p>
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