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ESA Preview 2018
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After a fruitful 2017 with many exciting launches and the end of some historic missions, ESA is ready for the year to come.
NASA’s Top 17 Earth From Space Images of 2017
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The people at the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston had the enviable job of going through this year’s crop to pick their top 17 photos of Earth for 2017—here’s what they chose!
AI and NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star
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Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope.
The Birth of a New Island
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The newly formed Tongan island, unofficially known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai after its neighbors, was initially projected to last a few months. Now it has a 6- to 30-year lease on life, according to a new NASA study.
ScienceCasts: A Supermoon Trilogy
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A series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on Dec. 3, 2017, Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31, 2018.
How Solar Flares Affect Earth
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A team of scientists led by Laura Hayes–a solar physicist who splits her time between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland–investigated a connection between solar flares and Earth's atmosphere.
First Interstellar Asteroid Wows Scientists
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Scientists were surprised and delighted to detect--for the first time--an interstellar asteroid passing through our solar system.
CubeSat to Test Miniaturized Weather Satellite
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Behind every weather forecast—from your local, five-day prediction to a late-breaking hurricane track update—are the satellites that make them possible.
China Launches Two BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellites
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China launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space via a single carrier rocket to support its global navigation and positioning network at 7:45 p.m. on Nov. 5, 2017.
Global Mountain Explorer Video Tutorial
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This video contains a narrated introduction to the Global Mountain Explorer (GME), a web-based tool for visualizing and exploring three well known global mountain data layers.
