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Curiosity Readies for a Long Drive
June 7, 2013 | NASA’s roving geology lab has been on Mars for 10 months, and scientists are finally preparing to send the rover toward its main objective: a towering mound of layered sediments inside Gale crater. > read more
Radiation Risks for Future Marsonauts
June 4, 2013 | Thanks to a detector carried across interplanetary space aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover, researchers now have a much clearer idea of radiation exposure that future astronauts will endure when traveling to and from Mars. > read more
Mars Express — Celebrating 10 Years
June 3, 2013 | Mars Express celebrates a decade of orbital observations of the Red Planet. > read more
Chance to Catch Closest Planet?
June 3, 2013 | In 2014 and 2016, Proxima Centauri will pass in front of two distant stars, potentially revealing details about itself and whether it hosts any planets in the process. > read more
Trapping Alien Dust
June 6, 2013 | New observations with the powerful ALMA observatory reveal a huge pile-up of dust around a young star. The result could help astronomers solve a long-standing mystery in planet formation. > read more
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Tour June’s Sky by Eye and Ear!
May 31, 2013 | Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury crowd together low in the west right after sunset, while Saturn is sandwiched high in the south between the constellations Libra and Virgo. > read more
Bob Stephens
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Big Science with Modest Scopes
June 4, 2013 | A recent annual meeting of amateur astronomers in Big Bear, California, proved once again that the amateur community is pursuing impressive science endeavors. > read more
This Week’s Sky at a Glance
June 7, 2013 | Mercury and Venus linger low in twilight, under Pollux and Castor. After dark, Scorpius shows its interesting upper quarters in the southeast. > read more
