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The Planetary Society

Our public education specialist Kate Howells reflects on the tenth anniversary of the Chelyabinsk Meteor Event, and don’t miss your chance to win a comfy Planetary Society beanie in this week’s Space Trivia Contest.

Space.com

As it turned out, the videos Chodas was sent showed a 59-foot (18 meters) near-Earth asteroid exploding in the atmosphere after surprising scientists by coming from the direction of the sun, a blind spot for telescopes and other sensors on the ground.

Space.com

Russia has pushed the launch of its next Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) into March, a delay of a few weeks. Soyuz vehicles are designed to carry astronauts, but this one, known as MS-23, will launch in an uncrewed state.

Space.com

The new JWST image reveals previously hidden details from the region and the merger of three already massive clusters to create an even larger “mega cluster” of galaxies. The nickname for this region …

Space.com

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the first-ever off-Earth sample depot for posterity. Perseverance built that depot on a patch of Martian ground called Three Forks over the course of five weeks beginning on Dec. 21, 2022.

CNN

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, also known as the “Doomsday glacier” due to the huge risk its melting poses to global sea levels. NASA/OIB/Jeremy Harbeck.

Space.com

This relatively recently discovered comet will make its closest approach to the sun on Sunday, Feb. 18. … A greenish comet streaks through the night sky. Comet ISON moves across the …

The Planetary Society

That’s where citizen scientists come in. Researchers at UCLA, in partnership with The Planetary Society and NASA, are recruiting volunteers to train computer algorithms that will be used to search for life beyond Earth.

Scientific American

Ramming through the air at hypersonic velocities blowtorched the asteroid’s surface, and left behind a thick trail of vaporized rock as it screamed over the Earth. The immense pressure started to flatten it (scientists call this “ …

Phys.Org

A review article published today in Nature addresses this conflict between models and evidence, known as the Holocene global temperature conundrum. Lead author Darrell Kaufman, a Regents’ professor in the School of Earth and Sustainability …