AstronomyApril 9, 2024
Donate Your Eclipse Glasses to Help Others Safely Enjoy the Awe
The nonprofit Astronomers Without Borders is collecting gently used eclipse glasses through Warby Parker and other sites to enable people to see future eclipses
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Samantha Mathewson is a contributing writer at Space.com.
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The Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Is a Hot Spot for Astrophysics
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Did Mars Once Harbor Deep-Sea Cradles of Life?
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Space & PhysicsSeptember 21, 2017
En Route to Asteroid, NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Will Fly by Earth
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Astronomers Struggle to Explain Mysterious X-Ray Burst
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New Study Pins Down Jupiter's Birthday
The gas giant planet took shape within 4 million years of our solar system's formation
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Strange "Moon Glow" Caused by Levitating Dust
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Curiosity Rover Spies Purple Rocks on Mars
Martian seasonal winds blow the dust off to expose bright colors
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot May Broil Planet's Atmosphere
Hottest temperatures ever seen on the planet found above the gigantic storm
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Giant Mountains on Venus May Help Explain Bizarre Clouds
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