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	Science Daily update ⋅ March 22, 2022
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	Space.com 5000 exoplanets! NASA confirms big milestone for planetary science Space.com Our tally of strange, new worlds just reached 5,000. Astronomers have added the 5,000th alien world to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, officials with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California announced on Monday (March 21). Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com NASA's work to align the James Webb Space Telescope is extending to more instruments Space.com The $10 billion telescope successfully aligned with its near-infrared camera (NIRCam), as the star image showed. But the observatory still has four other instruments that it must be able to switch between with perfect alignment to obtain sharp images of ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times How a Tiny Asteroid Strike May Save Earthlings From City-Killing Space Rocks The New York Times On March 11, life began to imitate art. That evening, at the Konkoly Observatory's Piszkéstető Mountain Station near Budapest, Krisztián Sárneczky was looking to the stars. Unsatisfied with discovering 63 near-Earth asteroids throughout his career, he was ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times How a Tiny Asteroid Strike May Save Earthlings From City-Killing Space Rocks The New York Times Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet catastrophically colliding with Earth always feature a key scene: a solitary astronomer spots the errant space chunk hurtling toward us, prompting panic and a growing feeling of existential dread as the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN There are now more than 5000 known planets outside of our solar system CNN The latest addition of 65 exoplanets to the NASA Exoplanet Archive contributed to the scientific milestone marked on Monday. This archive is the home to exoplanet discoveries from peer-reviewed scientific papers that have been confirmed using multiple ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com See Saturn, Venus and Mars as moon shines near bright Antares Space.com The quarter moon will be glowing above the red star, which is called the "rival of Mars" because it looks so much like the Red Planet. Antares is the heart of the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion) and is notable to astronomers because the star is late ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Astronomy's contribution to climate change rivals the emissions from some countries NPR A new estimate of the greenhouse gas emissions linked to all ground- and space-based telescopes, in the journal Nature Astronomy, says the annual carbon footprint of astronomy's research infrastructure is equivalent to about 20 million metric tons of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Cosmic milestone: NASA confirms 5000 exoplanets Phys.Org The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. Not so long ago, we lived in a universe with only a small number of known planets, all of them orbiting our ... Flag as irrelevant
	Smithsonian This Important Geophysical Robot on Mars May Die Soon Smithsonian This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. NASA / JPL-Caltech This article was originally published on Supercluster, a website dedicated to telling humanity's greatest outer space stories. Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED Astronomers Tally the Growing Carbon Footprint of Space Science WIRED Today's astronomy, however, is being conducted on a more massive scale: Huge arrays of receivers continually feed signals into power-hungry supercomputers, and multibillion-dollar spacecraft take years to build and tons of rocket fuel to launch. Flag as irrelevant
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