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How the Moon formed | Astronomy.com

How the Moon formed | Astronomy.com

[ad_1] During the Artemis test mission in 2022, Orion passes close to the Moon’s surface, with Earth a small crescent in the background. Credit: NASA Once upon a time, our earliest ancestors, on the plains of Africa, gazed skyward and saw a bright Moon in our sky....

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Earth from Space: Salty lakes

[ad_1] The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the colourful waters of two salty lakes in East Africa: Lake Natron in northern Tanzania and Lake Magadi in southern Kenya.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn...

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NGC 7727’s cosmic merger foreshadows our own future

NGC 7727’s cosmic merger foreshadows our own future

[ad_1] Back to Article List A closer look at NGC 7727 shows what will likely happen to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies when they collide several billion years from now. Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab,...

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