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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. It wasn't easy to choose the most interesting, but here are the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023You probably know that Jupiter and Saturn, which are our biggest planets, also have the most moons. Their biggest ones were discovered some while back, but there are a lot of small ones now that we have better telescopes. And there's been a bit of competition here. Jupiter had the most moons. And then Saturn. And then Jupiter .... What's the story now?
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023For a long time, no one thought there was water on the Moon. But it now seems there is quite a lot of water ice around the Moon's south pole. Which country do you think was the first to put a lander near the south pole?
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ARE THE NEW Jovian moons asteroids caught in Juperter's gravity? It's an amazing world out there.
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Angie, nine of the moons are in retrograde orbits, i.e., they orbit in the opposite direction of Jupiter's rotation. They're definitely captured objects. As for the other three, which are prograde, who knows?!
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023The DART story took place in September 2022 when NASA crashed the spacecraft into an asteroid. Whoops! An accident? Or was there more to it?
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023OSIRIS-Rex has been is pretty busy - dropped off a delivery to NASA and went straight on to visit the next address.
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023Lucy's first target on the 12-year mission was the asteroid Dinkinesh that turned out to be in two pieces. Not mentioned in my article was how Lucy was named. In 1974 a hominim fossil was found that was important in the study of human evolution. The discovery team named her Lucy after a popular 1967 Beatles song. The asteroids could will shed light on the "fossils of planet formation". The spacecraft carries a disc made of lab-grown diamonds on one of its instruments.
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023Three exciting missions were lunched, two by ESA and one by NASA. Euclid is at a Lagrange point and has sent some images.The other two missions will take several years to get to their targets.
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023NASA's Juno mission has spotted organic compounds on the moon Ganymede. They could have seeped up from a deep ocean. (if there's an ocean, it might contain life.)
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023Still outraged that Pluto is now a [grrr] dwarf planet? A group of planetary scientists reviewed data and images from the 2015 New Horizons flyby. They believe they've found the remains of a super cryovolcano on Pluto. (A cryovolcano erupts ice rather than lava.) Things are looking up, Little Guy!
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The year 2023 provided a lot of exciting astronomy. I listed the ones that I liked best.
Top 10 Astro Stories of 2023It looks as though Venus may well not be a dead planet, but is still tectonically active. That doesn't mean you'd want to go there!
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