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	Science Daily update ⋅ December 28, 2019
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	Space.com The Biggest Alien Planet Discoveries of 2019 Space.com As 2019 comes to a close, it's time to review some of the biggest space science stories of the year. From a world with three suns in its sky to lots of possibly habitable real estate, the past year has seen some incredible exoplanet discoveries. Here are 10 of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Four ways the Mars 2020 rover will pave the way for a manned mission CNN (CNN) When NASA's Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021, it will touch down in Jezero Crater, the site of a lake that existed 3.5 billion years ago. The next generation rover will build on the goals of previous robotic explorers by collecting ... Flag as irrelevant
	Sky & Telescope The Best Meteor Showers in 2020 Sky & Telescope Sky & Telescope predicts that the three best meteor showers — the Quadrantids, Perseids and Geminids — will all have strong showings this year. Geminids Dec 13_2018 Bob King 480x274. A Geminid meteor flashes across the sky on December 13, 2018. Flag as irrelevant
	Sky & Telescope This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 27 – January 4 Sky & Telescope This week the Moon returns to the evening sky as a crescent, then waxes to first quarter. On Friday the 27th it's elusively low in twilight with faint, even-lower Saturn; bring binoculars. Venus in Capricornus, Jan. 3, 2019. A week later, Venus is higher and Alpha ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Is Betelgeuse, one of the sky's brightest stars, on the brink of a supernova? Washington Post One of the sky's brightest lights is losing its shine. Since the start of December, the star Betelgeuse — the gleaming right shoulder of the constellation Orion — has been rapidly growing dim. Just 650 light-years from Earth, it's usually the ninth most luminous ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Satellite constellations: Astronomers warn of threat to view of Universe BBC News Astronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat. From next week, a campaign to launch thousands of new satellites will begin in earnest, offering high-speed internet access from space. But the first fleets of these spacecraft, ... Flag as irrelevant
	PBS NewsHour 3 major moments from the 'golden' decade of black holes PBS NewsHour Black holes are some of the most enigmatic objects in the universe. They are immense amounts of matter densely packed into an impossibly tiny area, creating a gravitational force so strong that not even light can escape. That means one cannot observe them ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Waiting for Betelgeuse: what's up with the tempestuous star? Phys.Org Have you noticed that Orion the Hunter—one of the most iconic and familiar of the wintertime constellations—is looking a little… different as of late? The culprit is its upper shoulder star Alpha Orionis, aka Betelgeuse, which is looking markedly faint, the faintest ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Evolution: A revelatory relationship Phys.Org A new study of the ecology of an enigmatic group of novel unicellular organisms by scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich supports the idea hydrogen played an important role in the evolution of Eukaryota, the first nucleated cells. Flag as irrelevant
	Popular Science These 'super puff' planets have the same density as cotton candy Popular Science With each new alien planet discovered, the astronomical catalog of bizarre worlds and systems swells. "Hot Jupiters" huddle closer to their host stars than Mercury. "Circumbinary" planets circle two stars at once. One "super earth" is blanketed in a layer of ... Flag as irrelevant
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