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	Science Daily update ⋅ August 13, 2021
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	Space.com Perseid meteor shower of 2021 thrills skywatchers Space.com Tyler Leavitt, an amateur astronomer in Las Vegas, sent some pictures to Space.com from about 30 miles (50 kilometers), where he drove to "get away from the lights," he told Space.com in an e-mail. The spectacular result showed Perseid meteors lit up high in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Watch the BepiColombo probe zoom by Venus on its way to Mercury in this new video Space.com In fact, during this flyby, BepiColombo got closer to the surface of Venus than the Japanese orbiter Akatsuki, the only spacecraft currently studying Venus. The closest point in Akatsuki's orbit around Venus is at about 620 miles (1,000 km). Flag as irrelevant
	Spaceflight Now Cygnus supply ship arrives at space station with four tons of cargo Spaceflight Now Closing out a 36-hour flight from a launch pad in Virginia, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station Thursday with a host of biomedical experiments, supplies for a 3D printing tech demo, fresh food, and spare parts. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Amazing photos of the 2021 Perseid meteor shower Space.com The annual Perseid meteor shower, one of the best displays of "shooting stars" this year, put on a spectacular show for skywatchers around the world. As Earth passed through the remnants of Comet Swift-Tuttle, small pieces of the comet rained down on Earth ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com NASA's Mars helicopter spots its Perseverance rover pal from above in an epic view (video) Space.com Can you spot the Mars rover in this view from NASA's Ingenuity helicopter? While flying over the Red Planet for the 11th time last week, the little helicopter caught a view of its "mothership" — NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed in Mars' Jezero Crater ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Asteroid Bennu now has a greater chance of hitting Earth through 2300, but still slim CNN (CNN) Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming closest approaches to Earth -- and whether it could ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Washington Post The chances of this asteroid hitting earth are tiny, NASA says — but not zero The Washington Post It's not the plot of another doomsday movie. Yet there is a pending, albeit unlikely threat to life as we know it: an asteroid approaching Earth. Bennu, a rugged, rock-spewing asteroid with a diameter of about one-third of a mile, is headed in our direction, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com How big is a black hole? How messily it 'eats' may be a clue. Space.com Astronomers think they have a new way to calculate the size of supermassive black holes: by studying the feeding patterns of these invisible giants. Scientists have long noticed flickering patterns in the brightness of accretion disks, the fat ring of matter pulled ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times A Woolly Mammoth's Tusks Reveal a Map of Where It Roamed in Life The New York Times "This is a better understanding how they behaved, what environment they used," said Matthew Wooller, director of the stable isotope facility at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and lead author of a paper published on Thursday by the journal Science that ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Cygnus cargo ship arrives at International Space Station with its biggest NASA haul ever Space.com The Northrop Grumman ship S.S. Ellison Onizuka is packed with more than 4 tons of supplies. Flag as irrelevant
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