APOD: 2026 November 12 – Moon, Venus and Spica Meet
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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 12 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating unive...
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- On: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:05 +0000
Scotland’s Flow Country
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Blanket bogs in the Scottish Highlands store vast amounts of carbon....
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- On: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:01 +0000
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5063-5069 Rocks and Chips
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Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 This week Curiosity has been completing its drill campaign at the “Nazca” drill hole. This is an area characterized by bedrock cont...
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- On: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:41 +0000
The Ice Giants' Magnetic Fields are Very Strange Compared to Earth's
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Uranus and Neptune, the Solar System's ice giants, have interiors unlike the other planets. As a result, they also have magnetic fields unlike the others. They're messy and tilted, and Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to even flyby them, showed us how messy ...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:09 +0000
Asteroid Mining Will Crash the Platinum Market, But That’s Good News for Earth
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Science fiction authors have been dreaming of robotic spacecraft harvesting fortunes from asteroids for decades. Humanity is slowly getting closer to that reality. But if you ask asteroid mining skeptics, they will usually ask one specific question - what ...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:06 +0000
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory Unmasks a Supernova Impostor
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Some stars, called Luminous Blue Variables, can be confused with supernovae explosions. They exhibit similar outbursts, but unlike supernovae, which explode once and then are gone forever, these stars have periodic outbursts. New research found that one of...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:41 +0000