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	Science Daily update ⋅ November 3, 2020
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	CNN Here's how NASA fared under Trump CNN New York (CNN Business) President Donald Trump ignited a months-long political battle in 2017 when he appointed Jim Bridenstine, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma, to run NASA. The space agency is typically helmed by a scientist, a former ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com The International Space Station can't last forever. Here's how it will eventually die by fire. Space.com What goes up must come down — including, sadly enough, the International Space Station. For precisely 20 years now, the massive orbiting laboratory has constantly been home to humans, the lucky handful of Earthlings who at any given time venture into ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com The International Space Station has been humanity's foothold in orbit for 20 years Space.com For 20 years, humans have had an unbroken presence in orbit on the International Space Station. But that two-decade stretch is just the first phase of a bright future for humanity in space, astronauts and the station's builders say. Advertisement. The stretch of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com More than half of all sunlike stars in the Milky Way may have a habitable planet Space.com Our Milky Way galaxy abounds with potentially Earth-like planets, a new study suggests. On average, each sunlike star in the Milky Way likely harbors between 0.4 and 0.9 rocky planets in its "habitable zone," the just-right range of orbital distances where ... Flag as irrelevant
	Spaceflight Now Scientists release new view from OSIRIS-REx's asteroid smash and grab Spaceflight Now The structure of the asteroid's outermost layer is evident in imagery captured by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it swooped down to the airless world more than 200 million miles (330 million kilometers) from Earth on Oct. 20. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Humans have been living on the space station for 20 years CNN (CNN) When NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev entered the International Space Station on November 2, 2000, they became the first of many to live in the orbiting laboratory 227 nautical miles ... Flag as irrelevant
	EarthSky Astronomers measure a change in orbit for infamous asteroid Apophis EarthSky Astronomers in Hawaii have detected the Yarkovsky effect – a minuscule push imparted by sunlight – for asteroid Apophis. The effect is particularly important for Apophis, because it relates to the possibility of an Earth impact in 2068. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Researchers develop a high-power, portable terahertz laser Phys.Org Researchers at MIT and the University of Waterloo have developed a high-power, portable version of a device called a quantum cascade laser, which can generate terahertz radiation outside of a laboratory setting. The laser could potentially be used in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Platypuses glow an eerie blue-green under UV light Livescience.com Duck-billed, egg-laying platypuses just got a little weirder: It turns out their fur glows green and blue under ultraviolet (UV) light. Under visible light a platypus's extremely dense fur — which insulates and protects them in cold water — is a drab brown, so the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Next-gen astronomical survey makes its first observations toward a new understanding of the cosmos Phys.Org The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's fifth generation collected its very first observations of the cosmos at 1:47 a.m. on October 24, 2020. This groundbreaking all-sky survey will bolster our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies—including our own ... Flag as irrelevant
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