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	Science Daily update ⋅ April 7, 2020
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	The New York Times E. Margaret Burbidge, Astronomer Who Blazed Trails on Earth, Dies at 100 The New York Times E. Margaret Burbidge, an astrophysicist who made pathbreaking findings about the state of the cosmos, not the least of which was discovering precisely what it entailed to succeed as a woman in a male-dominated universe at midcentury, died on Sunday at ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com April's Super Pink Moon is the biggest full moon of 2020. Here's what to expect. Space.com On Tuesday (April 7) at 2:08 p.m. EDT (1808 GMT), the moon will arrive at its closest point to Earth in 2020: a distance of 221,772 miles (356,907 kilometers) away. And 8 hours and 35 minutes later, the moon will officially turn full. Although a full moon ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, tap asteroid resources Space.com The water ice and other lunar resources that will help the United States establish a long-term human presence on the moon are there for the taking, the White House believes. President Donald Trump signed an executive order today (April 6) establishing U.S. ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com What smacked Uranus on its side? Something icy and as massive as Earth, scientists say. Space.com The impactor that knocked Uranus on its side long ago isn't quite so mysterious anymore. Uranus is tipped over more than 90 degrees relative to the plane of the solar system, and so are the gaseous planet's ring system and the orbits of its 27 known moons. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Boeing will launch a 2nd uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft for NASA Space.com Boeing will take another crack at an uncrewed rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS). In December 2019, the company launched its CST-100 Starliner capsule to the ISS on an uncrewed demonstration mission called Orbital Flight Test (OFT), ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Great Barrier Reef suffers its most widespread mass bleaching event on record Washington Post Earlier this year, scientists warned that the Great Barrier Reef could be on the brink of its most widespread bleaching event ever recorded. That fear has now been realized. New surveys conducted by scientists at Australia's James Cook University and the ... Flag as irrelevant
	EarthSky Spot BepiColombo during its goodbye flyby on April 9-10 EarthSky On the night of April 9-10, BepiColombo will pass 7,891 miles (12,700 km, about 1 Earth diameter) from Earth's surface. For most of us, it'll pass unseen. But people with telescopes will spot it! How to spot BepiColombo on its roundabout journey to Mercury ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Bright Comet ATLAS could blaze into view this month Space.com Already visible in telescopes and high-power binoculars, the comet may be bright enough to see with the naked eye by the end of April. Shares. Comments (0). Astrophotographer Chris Schur captured this image of Comet ATLAS from Payson, Arizona, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American COVID-19 Shutdown May Obscure Mysteries of Cracked Interstellar Comet Scientific American About four months ago, in December 2019, the interstellar comet known as 2I/Borisov made its closest approach to our sun. After its initial discovery by Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov in August 2019, astronomers raced to observe the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org The Milky Way's satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation Phys.Org Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a relatively large satellite galaxy visible from the ... Flag as irrelevant
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