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Week of September 17, 2017 'All Space Questions' thread (self.space)

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Voyager: At 10 billion miles from Earth, there is no day and night, and the Sun is a tiny point of starlight (nasa.gov)

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The first test flight of the space shuttle Enterprise in 1977. (youtu.be)

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'It Went Perfectly': Cassini Saturn Probe Was a Pro to the Very End (space.com)

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DiscussionWe have just hit 13,000,000 subscribers! (self.space)

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Why Does Time Exist at All? | Sean Carroll - TED Talk "entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe" (youtube.com)

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Finnish Scientists Push for 50 Nano-Spacecrafts to Explore 300 Asteroids (popularmechanics.com)

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Earth's Gravity to Slingshot Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft to Target Friday (news.azpm.org)

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Astro Pi upgrades on the International Space Station (raspberrypi.org)

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The Famous Chinese Astronomer RIA Novosti Zhanna Manukyan Died (enews.space)

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Kepler Discovers Pulsations in the Pleiades... The stars of the Pleiades are easy targets for backyard observers. They’re frequent targets for professional ground-based telescopes. So it’s ironic that they’re some of the most difficult targets for space-based telescopes. That's about to change... (skyandtelescope.com)

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Size Comparison of the Universe 2017 (youtube.com)

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield's wonderful explanation about the retirement of the shuttle program in response to a question about why it was 'scrapped' (Start at 46:29 though the whole talk is great) (youtube.com)

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DiscussionHow do we picture milky way, estimate where we are in it and the size of it etc? (self.space)

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NASA | Exploration Mission-1 – Pushing Farther Into Deep Space (youtube.com)

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DiscussionWhat sort of information are we recieving from Voyagers? (self.space)

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New research suggests Mercury's poles are icier than scientists thought (phys.org)

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Northern Lights Over Canada (nasa.gov)

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Sean Carroll Speculated on Time and the Future of the Universe... Here is a Mesmerizing Look at the History of Our Universe with David Christian (youtube.com)

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DiscussionHydrogen, Helium and Gravity (self.space)

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The Dumbest Mistakes In Space Exploration (youtube.com)

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Berlin artist to launch the first satellite sculpture via SpaceX. (fastcodesign.com)

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Sedimentary layers provide insight into Mars’ past (universetoday.com)

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DiscussionAny gravity experiments planned on the upcoming OSIRIS-REx Earth flyby? (self.space)

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Pitch-black planet was discovered using NASA’s Hubble telescope (cbc.ca)

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DiscussionSouth Australia ready to host IAC... Who else is excited?? (self.space)

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