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    Astronomers discover previously unknown quasi-moon near Earth
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    ‘We’re not going to wait for one company’: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
  • BAYINGOLIN, CHINA - OCTOBER 21: The Orionid meteor shower lights up the night sky at Yuli County on October 21, 2020 in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Xue Bing/VCG via Getty Images)
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    How and when to watch the Orionid meteor shower
  • The Fermi LAT 60-month image, constructed from front-converting gamma rays with energies greater than 1 GeV. The most prominent feature is the bright band of diffuse glow along the map's center, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The gamma rays are mostly produced when energetic particles accelerated in the shock waves of supernova remnants collide with gas atoms and even light between the stars. Hammer projection.
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Space

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    Astronomers discover rare double-ringed odd radio circle in space
  • SpaceX’s megarocket finds redemption after explosive failures. But time may be running out
  • NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry
  • Two bright comets will swing by Earth this month. Here’s how to see them

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    Sergio Couto
    Vulture nests in Spain reveal a centuries-old sandal and other stunning cultural artifacts
  • Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’
  • Archaeologists have uncovered a sunken ancient Egyptian port. Is it connected to Cleopatra?
  • Elusive shipwreck found in Lake Michigan over 100 years after sinking

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  • From left: the scene of the total eclipse at 3:03 pm, 3:04pm, and 306pm.
    Kimberly Rosvall/Indiana University
    Why birds sang after a total solar eclipse, according to new research
  • Sparks between microscopic bubbles could explain the ghostly, glowing will-o’-the-wisps, study finds
  • Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientist trio for Harry Potter-like work in molecular architecture
  • Trio of physicists win Nobel Prize for revealing ‘bizarre properties’ of the quantum world

Paleontology

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    Rudolf Hima
    Researchers spot rare evidence of how two baby pterosaurs died 150 million years ago
  • Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
  • Researchers unearthed skeleton of extinct ‘hypercarnivore’ that had a taste for dinosaurs
  • New dinosaur species with striking sail-like back discovered
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