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FOREGROUND ASTEROID PASSING THE CRAB NEBULA

PSI Senior Scientist Jeff Kargel paints a gloomy outlook for ice in Greenland challenged by global climate change.

Lake Natron, Tanzania

Hubble Snaps Spiral's Profile

Perspective view of Nirgal Vallis.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these views of the Lunar South Pole.

OXYGEN AND METAL FROM LUNAR REGOLITH__Metal from moondust

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 to James Peebles (Princeton University), Michel Mayor (University of Geneva, Switzerland), and Didier Queloz (University of Geneva, Switzerland, and University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos," with one half to Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" and the other half jointly to Mayor and Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

The discovery images for the newly found very distant prograde moon of Saturn. They were taken on the Subaru Telescope with about one hour between each image. The background stars and galaxies do not move, while the newly discovered Saturnian moon, highlighted with an orange bar, shows motion between the two images.