Astronomers once “lost” a moon of Jupiter.
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NASA discovered a reservoir in space that holds the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans.
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If we were to look at the sky with a radio telescope tuned to 408 MHz, the sky would appear radically different from what we see in visible light. Instead of seeing point-like stars, we would see distant pulsars, star-forming regions, and supernova remnants would dominate the night sky.
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The Kuiper Belt is named for astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who published a scientific paper in 1951 that speculated about objects beyond Pluto.
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In 1977, we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. It is referred to as “6EQUJ5”. We still don’t know how or where it came from.
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Scientists think that a huge asteroid slammed into Mercury about 4 billion years ago, creating a giant crater about 960 miles (1,545 km) across.
