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Month: February 2020

February 28, 2020 Astronomy

C/2019 Y4 ( ATLAS )

  C/2019 Y4 ( ATLAS ) A new name eye comet for 2020?   Source: www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2019Y4/2019Y4.html

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February 26, 2020 Astronomy

The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes

The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes   A new exhibition pairs paintings by Indigenous Australian artists with microscopic images captured by scientists. The parallels are intriguing.

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February 25, 2020 Exoplanets

Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and

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February 24, 2020 Astronomy / Cosmology

Astronomers Discover Class of Strange Objects Near Our Galaxy’s Enormous Black Hole

  Astronomers Discover Class of Strange Objects Near Our Galaxy’s Enormous Black Hole – W. M. Keck Observatory   The Keck Observatory telescopes on Maunakea in Hawaii, are the world’s

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February 23, 2020 Exoplanets

New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery

  New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery | Quanta Magazine By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a

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February 13, 2020 Mars

SwRI models hint at longer timescale for Mars formation

  SwRI models hint at longer timescale for Mars formation The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating that Mars was likely struck by planetesimals, small protoplanets

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