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This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller)
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This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller)

Boing Boing·Rob Beschizza·3 days ago
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This weekend's Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit.…

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One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds — and it could be key to fully…
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One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds — and it could be key to fully…

Latest from Live Science ·Elizabeth Howell·3 days ago
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Neptune has a complicated life story, and its moon Nereid might be the only one left standing from the planet’s multibillion-year history.

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Missions to Ocean Moons Face a Strange Hazard Scientists Didn’t Expect
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Missions to Ocean Moons Face a Strange Hazard Scientists Didn’t Expect

Gizmodo·Gayoung Lee·17 days ago
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The frozen worlds orbiting Jupiter and Saturn might be encapsulated in "fluffy ice" that could send landers spiraling down a pit of icy space slush, scientists warn.

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