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What is the biggest thing in the Universe? May 02, 2019

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The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is the largest known super-structure in the universe.

It is a huge group of galaxies forming a giant sheet-like pattern. It is about 10 billion light-years long, 7.2 billion light-years wide, and almost 1 billion light-years thick. It is about 10 billion light-years away in the constellations of Hercules and Corona Borealis, hence its name.

SpaceX Starlink gets Launch Approval May 01, 2019

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SpaceX has been given the thumbs-up from the Federal Communications Commission to start building global internet service via thousands of satellites that could offer internet to anyone on the planet.

The Most Expensive Thing in the Universe? Apr 29, 2019

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An asteroid named 16 Psyche, was found to be made almost entirely of iron and nickel. That means, in current US markets, 16 Psyche is worth somewhere around $10,000 quadrillion.

SpaceX and NASA investigating Crew Dragon Explosion Apr 26, 2019

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NASA and SpaceX investigating Crew Dragon Explosion before launching humans to ISS.

NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise Apr 26, 2019

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While headlines routinely report on "close shaves" and "near-misses" when near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids or comets pass relatively close to Earth, the real work of preparing for the possibility of a NEO impact with Earth goes on mostly out of the public eye.

For more than 20 years, NASA and its international partners have been scanning the skies for NEOs, which are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun and come within 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit. International groups, such as NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), the European Space Agency's Space Situational Awareness-NEO Segment and the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) have made better communication of the hazards posed by NEOs a top priority.

First Mars Quake Measured and Recorded - Listen Here Apr 24, 2019

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NASA’s InSight lander set down the French SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars. On 6 April, on the 128th Martian day or ‘sol’ of the mission, a quiet but distinct seismic signal was detected similar to quakes detected on the surface of the Moon by the Apollo missions.

Mars 2020 Rover Assembled and Tested for Launch Next Year Apr 22, 2019

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NASA's next Mars mission is slowly coming together in a "clean room" in California. Technicians at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory assembled the capsule that will keep the Mars 2020 rover secure for its wild ride to the Red Planet's surface.

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China unveils colossal Mars training camp in Gobi desert Apr 20, 2019

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China unveiled a colossal Mars survival simulation base camp on Wednesday in the Gobi desert of Jinchang, Northwest China's Gansu Province. According to a project employee, the simulation camp will become an astronaut training facility in the future.

Elusive Universe kick-starting Molecule Found Apr 19, 2019

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The helium hydride ion (HeH+) the scientists detected wasn't the original one created just after the Big Bang, but it has the same molecular structure — helium combined with hydrogen — they theorized formed at the time.

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NASA Sending Astronauts to Moon South Pole Apr 18, 2019

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NASA is working right now to send American astronauts to the surface of the Moon in five years, and the agency has its sights set on a place no humans have ever gone before: the lunar South Pole.

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