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The Pristine Visitor From Another Star

12th - Higher Ed
You may have heard of the first interstellar object observed in our solar system, but did you know there's more than one? And speaking of icy rocks, new research suggests the ocean under the icy crust of Enceladus could be more dynamic...
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Does the Sun Have Long-Lost Siblings?

12th - Higher Ed
The sun may have thousands of stellar siblings, many of them probably just like it, elsewhere in the galaxy. Find out how astronomers are looking for them, and learn about a match that could be our star's long-lost sibling!
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ALMA: What We've Learned from One of the Best Telescopes on Earth

12th - Higher Ed
Move over Hubble, ALMA sees what you can't!
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They're Calling It: The Forbidden Planet

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered a planet that, for its size, is in a very strange place around it’s star! And other scientists, inspired by comets, have come up with a new way to potentially make breathable oxygen for people exploring Mars in the future.
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Old Voyager Data Has New Secrets About Uranus - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists announced a major discovery about Uranus using 34-year-old data from Voyager 2, and the Canadian telescope CHIME has detected 9 new FRB repeaters, helping us learn more about these mysterious signals.
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Comet Chase & Molten Moons

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode of SciShow Space News, Hank details the work of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. He also explains the new discoveries of Jupiter's moon Io.
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The Brightest, Biggest Space News of 2019!

12th - Higher Ed
This has been another really good year for exploring the universe. This is our annual superlatives episode, so let’s take a look at the some of the coolest breakthroughs of 2019.
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An Asteroid Visited Us From Outside the Solar System!

12th - Higher Ed
Earth has received its first speedy visitor from another star system, A/2017 U1, and the Dawn Mission has helped astronomers gather more evidence about possible former oceans on Ceres.
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8 New Earth-Like Planets Discovered!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space starts the year off with a bang, and the discovery of 8 Earth-like planets, two of which may be the most promising candidates yet for harboring life.
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How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?

12th - Higher Ed
It's virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that.
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Dust Could Turn Extreme Planets Habitable | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Some tidally-locked exoplanets might actually be more habitable than astronomers initially thought, and we have some ideas about how Peter Pan disks can last so much longer than other protoplanetary disks.
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The Mars Lander Crash: What Went Wrong?

12th - Higher Ed
Schiaparelli crashing into Mars wasn't exactly what the Exomars mission scientists were hoping for, but we're still going to get some useful information from the little probe's descent. And scientists have observed two of the brightest...
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Buzzed By a Weird Blue Asteroid

12th - Higher Ed
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon got closer than it will be until 2093, and the reflecting light has astronomers puzzled, and the relationship between black holes and magnetic fields is now a little more clear.
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The Legendary Arecibo Radiotelescope

12th - Higher Ed
All telescopes work by gathering light from the stars, but one held the crown for square footage for collecting that light for 53 years. The amazing Arecibo.
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The Mysterious Origins of Our Galaxy's Fastest Stars

12th - Higher Ed
A new paper that borrows old astrological data from the Voyager 2 probe has used brand-new computer simulations to find some new weird data about Uranus’s magnetic field. Another paper has new information about our galaxy’s fastest...
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Building Robot Astronauts

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has put out the challenge: can YOU build software for a space robot? Along with that warm fuzzy feeling that you've helped humanity reach for the stars, a cash prize will be awarded to the winners.
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Secret' Space Plane, and Curiosity's New Rock

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin delivers the latest developments from around the universe, including Curiosity's latest drill, the low-down on that "secret" space plane, and the dimmest galaxy ever detected.
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The Great Attractor: A Truly Massive Mystery

12th - Higher Ed
There's something out there SO massive that it's pulling on every object within hundreds of millions of light years. But we can't see it! So what DO we know? Today on SciShow Space, Reid Reimers tells us more about the Great Attractor.
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The Truth About the Sun's 'Twin' and the Dinosaurs

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers published a paper last month, exploring the possibility that our sun might have once had a stellar twin! Could our solar system have once been a binary, or even a multi-star system?
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The Oldest, Most Distant Object in the Universe Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
Hank reports on the discovery by NASA scientists of the most distant, oldest galaxy ever observed.
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The Surprising Secrets of Destroyed Exoplanets - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are learning new things by looking at the remains of exoplanets, NASA has unveiled a new spacesuit design, and engineers fixed a problem from one hundred million kilometers away.
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Space Superlatives of 2020!

12th - Higher Ed
2020 wasn't ALL bad news. This year scientists found ludicrously fast stars, ancient galaxy clusters, and developed a camera that could change how we study the night sky.
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We Just Took the First Image of a Baby Planet!

12th - Higher Ed
SPHERE took a photo of a baby planet and the origin of the asteroid belt may be less mysterious than we thought.
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When Athletes Dope ... & Einstein FTW

12th - Higher Ed
This week's SciShow news has Hank bringing us a primer on the science behind various illegal and illicit ways in which athletes "improve" their bodies, proof of general relativity that we can actually see, and a new way to measure how...