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  1. What you can see in the sky this week

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  2. Ultima Thule, a distant, icy Kuiper Belt Object lying 4 billion miles away, is a contact binary:

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  3. Researchers hope to "hear" quakes on Venus' surface with the help of balloons floating high above the venusian ground

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  4. Ultima Thule looks a bit like a cosmic bowling pin: New Horizons' first look at Ultima Thule reveals cosmic bowling pin:

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  5. Don't miss out on our latest special issue, 50 Greatest Mysteries of the Universe, which explores the questions humans have been asking since the dawn of civilization. Order your copy today!

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  6. Not big enough to be a star, but too big to be planet:

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  7. With the historic landing, Chang'e-4 has become the first lunar lander to experience the radio quiet afforded by the Moon's far side:

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  8. The FCC just gave SpaceX the green light to launch 7,518 new satellites, which will more than triple the ~2,000 satellites currently operating around Earth.

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  9. Why does the universe seem to be so finely tuned for our existence?

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  10. Ultima Thule: Formed by two objects stuck together in a slow cosmic collision

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  11. A diamond truly is forever

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  12. Astronomers have discovered a bizarre, Neptune-sized exoplanet located less than 100 light-years from Earth that's shedding its atmosphere so quickly it may help researchers finally answer the long-standing question: Where did all the hot Neptunes go?

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  13. The Milky Way could be growing

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  14. A microbial mass extinction occurred when a surprise 2015 rainstorm hit Chile's Mars-like Atacama Desert for the first time in hundreds of years.

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  15. Brilliant Venus climbs highest before dawn, while one of the year's top meteor showers peaks under a New Moon:

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  17. NGC 5963 and NGC 5965: Our Featured Picture of the Day asytwitter

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  18. Lowell Observatory, where Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, is undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation that includes a massive outdoor planetarium, where crowds can gaze up at the night sky while astronomers point out visible cosmic objects.

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    Black hole jets can act as particle accelerators in distant galaxies

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  20. Scientists find a massive, 19-mile-wide meteorite crater deep beneath the ice in Greenland. The serendipitous discovery may just be the best evidence yet of a meteorite causing the mysterious, 1,000-year period known as Younger Dryas.

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