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Astronomers Find a ‘Break’ in One of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms

. Astronomers Find a ‘Break’ in One of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position inside it. Scientists have spotted a previously unrecognized feature of our Milky Way galaxy: A contingent of young…
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NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit

. NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit Along with collecting a sample from the Bennu’s surface, the spacecraft provided precision data to better predict the near-Earth object’s orbit around the Sun. In a study released Wednesday, NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s Origins, Spectral…
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NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study Briefing

. NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study Briefing The mission spent over two years with Bennu, gathering information about its size, shape, mass, and composition while monitoring its spin and orbital trajectory. NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, Aug. 11, to discuss an important finding from…
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JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia

. JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia After having served five years as director of JPL, Michael Watkins will move to the Caltech campus as professor of aerospace and geophysics. Larry D. James becomes interim director of JPL. …
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NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt

. NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt The rover continues to explore Jezero Crater while the team assesses today’s activities. Data sent to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no…
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