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All eyes on Venus: 2 spacecraft gear up for close …

In this file photo made available by NASA shows the planet Venus made with data from the Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. (NASA/JPL-Caltech FILE via AP)

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Space probe takes black-and-white snapshot of Venus on …

This image provided on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 by the European Space Agency (ESA) taken by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 2, shows the closest approach to Venus. (European Space Agency ESA via AP)

Spacecraft captures closest images ever of the sun, revealing …

This image, provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday, July 16, 2020, shows the Sun. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft took this image on 30 May 2020. It shows the Sun's appearance at a wavelength of 17 nanometers, which is in the extreme ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. During an online press briefing with Solar Orbiter mission experts, the first images from ESA's new Sun-observing spacecraft were released on Thursday. (Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL/ via AP)

Spacecraft detects ‘green glow’ around Mars

ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet (European Space Agency)

Astronaut Christina Koch Safely Back on Earth After Record-Breaking …

NASA astronaut Christina Koch reacts shortly after landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan, on February 6, 2020. (Credit: SERGEI ILNITSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Mile-Wide Asteroid With Mini Moon Set to Make Closest …

An animation created by NASA JPL shows the KW4 system as viewed from Earth.

Hubble Telescope Captures Image of Galactic ‘Hit and Run’ …

The collision was more like an accidental hit and run between two neighboring galaxies, NGC 4485 and NGC 4490, that can be found in the Hunting Dogs constellation. (Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA)

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Stephen Hawking’s Voice To Be Beamed 3,500 Light …

British scientist Stephen Hawking attends the launch of The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, eastern England, on October 19, 2016. (Credit: NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP/Getty Images)

Astronomers Have Found the Fastest-Growing Black …

The black hole is growing so fast it can devour a mass the size of the sun every two days. (CREDIT: NASA/ESA/D. Coe., J. Anderson, and R. Van Der Marel (STSCI))

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