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                            <title><![CDATA[ Latest from Space.com in Astronomy ]]></title>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ They really launched this tiny spacecraft (Well, sort of.) | Space photo of the day for May 11, 2026 ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/they-really-launched-this-tiny-spacecraft-well-sort-of-space-photo-of-the-day-for-may-11-2026</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ It's the tiniest Mars test we've seen yet. ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PvCAxqTcNUrdozcHtEQ2ua-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[ESA – A. Conigli]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[A small robot Lego figurine stands to the left of a miniature space capsule, both sitting in reddish dirt. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A small robot Lego figurine stands to the left of a miniature space capsule, both sitting in reddish dirt. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ New James Webb Space Telescope images reveal how massive star clusters can reshape galaxies ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/new-james-webb-space-telescope-images-reveal-how-massive-star-clusters-can-reshape-galaxies</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — and the view is stunning, too. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 11 May 2026 13:35:03 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Samantha Mathewson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VTXvx8grDLN79R8Ka5VyAV-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[ESA/Webb, NASA &amp; CSA, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Red and orange streaks against a dark blue starry section of space.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Red and orange streaks against a dark blue starry section of space.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Does Dante's Inferno from the 14th century depict an asteroid impact? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/does-dantes-inferno-from-the-14th-century-depict-an-asteroid-impact</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a multi-ringed crater with a central peak. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Asteroids]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4TmYhTqJE2wfpZhHTPMtA3-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510)/Wikimedia Commons]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A painting depicting the &quot;Chart of Hell.&quot;]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A painting showing an upside down mountain over Earth.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/black-holes-slamming-into-scorching-stars-may-be-causing-mysterious-blue-flashes-in-the-cosmos</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe's hottest class of star. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 08 May 2026 22:04:46 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/B75LjmXL73yKBcwmGaDHwc-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration shows a black hole colliding with a Wolf Rayet star triggering a bright blue blast.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An illustration of a fiery-looking star with a black circle on it. Blue flashes protrude from the black circle.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Artemis astronauts may find remnants of a 'decapitated' asteroid's impact on the moon ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-bizarre-decapitated-asteroid-likely-made-the-moons-largest-impact-crater-nasas-artemis-astronauts-may-land-near-the-proof</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the lunar south pole. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:09:17 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stefanie Waldek ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/webp" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xUwsvcLhr8Gh3zfgnrUXMN-1280-80.webp">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The moon&#039;s largest impact feature, the South Pole–Aitken basin, is so named because it stretches between Aitken crater and the south pole.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The moon against a dark background. The south pole is pointed out.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Moon joy at Jupiter | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2026 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a photo of Jupiter's moon Thebe. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:10:08 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:13:27 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jCZKw5vvmF6k7vTSyRdHDJ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[On the upper righthand side of this image of the black of space is a small rock that is actually Jupiter&#039;s Moon Thebe.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[On the upper righthand side of this image of the black of space is a small rock that is actually Jupiter&#039;s Moon Thebe.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Here's what 6 years of driving on Mars did to the wheels on NASA's Curiosity rover (video) ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/heres-what-6-years-of-driving-on-mars-did-to-the-wheels-on-nasas-curiosity-rover-video</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover's wheels while driving on Mars. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Samantha Mathewson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JkZbtzHqQmcLKoFognn8bd-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[a black-and-white image of a wheeled robot, with deep gouges and cracks in its metal wheels]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a black-and-white image of a wheeled robot, with deep gouges and cracks in its metal wheels]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How do the biggest black holes in the universe form? Ripples in spacetime provide a clue ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/how-do-the-biggest-black-holes-in-the-universe-form-ripples-in-spacetime-provide-a-clue</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:02:27 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pHZruXfTiSj7kXCEwZ6peC-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The dense stellar environment of the globular cluster M80 could drive the formation of massive black holes.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A very starry image where the stars concentrate at the center. A boxout shows that a black hole (illustrated) exists in middle of all the stars if you zoom in.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Should Saturn's huge moon Titan be humanity's next destination, after the moon and Mars? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/saturn/should-saturns-huge-moon-titan-be-humanitys-next-destination-after-the-moon-and-mars</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:13:31 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Leonard David ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2dMALvhtUKxZY5tA4gSiTK-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Michael Carroll]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A space explorer soaks up the scenery on Titan.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A space explorer soaks up the scenery on Titan.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling in from the cold together ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today, possibly explaining the origin of many other mini-Neptunes in the process. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Exoplanets]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q55jjVDiw3t5UcmD6e8apV-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s impression of the mini-Neptune TOI-1130b and its hot Jupiter companion, TOI-1130c, which both formed further out from their star before migrating inward.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A blue planet on the left surrounded by ice and on the right is a red large planet.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 3 puzzles of our universe could be solved with this new dark matter theory ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new recipe of dark matter that interacts with itself could be the solution to three separate and vastly different cosmic puzzles. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:12:45 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:01:14 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/S2RuepV6kZU3FYEX67MT28-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration of self-interacting dark matter at the heart of a spiral galaxy.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Purple blobs in the center of the screen are surrounded by the spiral arms of a purple and blue galaxy.]]></media:text>
                                <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[Purple blobs in the center of the screen are surrounded by the spiral arms of a purple and blue galaxy.]]></media:title>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Scientists created one of the largest simulations of our universe ever — about the size of 500,000 HD movies ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/scientists-created-one-of-the-largest-simulations-of-our-universe-ever-about-the-size-of-500-000-hd-movies</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The FLAMINGO project helps scientists explore how galaxies, dark matter and cosmic structures evolved over billions of years. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:46:46 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Samantha Mathewson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WYu7TJEjuYyWmDSnPWmXxQ-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Schaye et al. 2023]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The Cold Dark Matter surface density in a 20-megaparsec-thick slice of the cosmos. One megaparsec (Mpc) is equal to a million parsecs, and one parsec is equal to about 3 light-years.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Blue and green tendrils with a white box that says 100 Mpc.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Solar activity makes space junk crash to Earth faster ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall to Earth faster. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[The Sun]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Julian Dossett ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xLm3mjEChvHvivbhTfQyiW-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A coronal mass ejection, captured by the ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A coronal mass ejection, captured by the ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Mexico City is sinking up to 14 inches per year, satellite images show ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/mexico-city-is-sinking-up-to-14-inches-per-year-satellite-images-show</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Mexico City is one of the fastest subsiding cities in the world, dropping by up to 14 inches every year. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 05 May 2026 22:20:04 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5S6Kp5AEBR38GKAfnoGShD-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA/JPL–Caltech/David Bekaert]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[NISAR&#039;s radar image of Mexico City, showing subsiding areas in blue.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A bright green view of Mexico City with blue areas surrounding the airport and chalco lake. The angel of independence is also in a slightly blue area.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ A tiny 'plutino' world beyond Neptune has grown a mysterious atmosphere, and we don't know how ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/scientists-find-tiny-object-in-our-solar-system-with-a-mysterious-atmosphere-that-shouldnt-exist</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:53:32 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hAS2aN52Jf6nY5wvQV5UPi-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration depicting how an object with an atmosphere occults a distant star.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A planet in the center of the image with a hazy purple atmosphere around it. There are white dots in a line behind the planet.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ NASA is making a powerful new ion engine to send astronauts to Mars — and it just passed its 1st test  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 05 May 2026 16:09:22 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KTdQVfAKyqccktEgLPpxpf-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A still from footage of a recent NASA/JPL test of a new magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor and is capable of reaching power levels far beyond today’s electric propulsion systems. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a series of bright red concentric rings on a black background]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope directly studies an exoplanet's surface for the 1st time: 'We see a dark, hot, barren rock' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a dark, airless, Mercury-like world. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:32:30 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Sharmila Kuthunur ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wN6fZ3uMRPG2zpYonHi44T-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Scientists say this high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b, which the JWST just observed.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Half circle of a cratered, gray world.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Our Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' holds a galaxy supercluster with 30,000 trillion times the sun's mass ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/galaxies/our-milky-ways-zone-of-avoidance-holds-a-galaxy-supercluster-with-30-000-trillion-times-the-suns-mass</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the attention of local galaxies. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:54:45 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jtXhjBSNoygm2cXUJFRh2i-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[NASA&#039;s Spitzer Space Telescope&#039;s infrared cameras imaged the Milky Way&#039;s center to create this portrait of our galaxy.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Clouds of red and purple sit on a dark background]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Lasers take aim at a galaxy far, far away | Space photo of the day for May 4, 2026 ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/lasers-take-aim-at-a-galaxy-far-far-away-space-photo-of-the-day-for-may-4-2026</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Looking like a scene out of "Star Wars," this image shows the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) beaming four separate lasers into the sky towards the Tarantula Nebula. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:17:44 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:54:45 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ brett.tingley@futurenet.com (Brett Tingley) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Brett Tingley ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sVmZE9jsjvGoRrG4fvnV4R-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[A. Berdeu/ESO]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[four bright yellow lines of light extend up into a starry night sky]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[four bright yellow lines of light extend up into a starry night sky]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why were galaxies so active in the early universe? We may be getting close to the answer ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/galaxies/why-were-galaxies-so-active-in-the-early-universe-we-may-be-getting-close-to-the-answer</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Early galaxies were star-forming machines, gobbling up gas and spitting out stars with a furious intensity. A new model helps explain why things were so different back then. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 04 May 2026 13:49:22 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8YdEfW8BQVC4RoDEyxoYWM-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[This deep-field image by NASA&#039;s James Webb Space Telescope shows some of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The James Webb Space Telescope deep field image showing some of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 7 things nobody tells you about stargazing (that make a huge difference) ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/stargazing/7-things-nobody-tells-you-about-stargazing-that-make-a-huge-difference</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ From chasing the Milky Way to using your eyes as nature intended, here are some often-overlooked truths that make all the difference under the night sky. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Stargazing]]></category>
                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jamie Carter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aEikxrAwqp28qnuzx8pg2J-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Jamie Carter]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Owachomo Bridge and the Milky Way.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a bridge silhouetted again the milky way]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why do some stars become 'supernova impostors'? Astronomers still don't quite know ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Stars]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PCGfrGx3Daf56YNZ5Ag5Jn-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing &amp; License: Judy Schmidt]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Historical records do show that about 170 years ago, the star Eta Carinae underwent an unusual outburst that made it one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. But it wasn&#039;t a supernova, it was a &quot;supernova impostor.&quot;]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[two large lobes of colorful gas radiate outward from a bright pinpoint of light ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Drone radar could help spacecraft pinpoint where to drill for water on Mars, scientists say ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/drone-radar-could-help-spacecraft-pinpoint-where-to-drill-for-water-on-mars-scientists-say</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Drone-mounted radar flown over glaciers on Earth show how the technology can map buried ice in detail, helping future Mars spacecraft choose exactly where to drill. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:54:30 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Samantha Mathewson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iXjxXwNvddkxLiPMz9yveQ-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Jack W. Holt]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Silhouetted against the blue sky, a drone carrying a ground-penetrating radar instrument lifts off from Galena Creek Rock Glacier in Wyoming.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A drone above a rocky area.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Is it cake? No, it's a parachute! | Space photo of the day for May 1, 2026 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ In this donut-shaped bag is a massive parachute. Next stop? Mars. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:30:47 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ybixMgsS2yNrVURLpL5dLe-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Two people wearing glasses work above what looks like a large tire with fabric on the outside on a table. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Two people wearing glasses work above what looks like a large tire with fabric on the outside on a table. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers capture sweeping Mars panoramas (video) ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ New panoramic views from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers reveal dramatically different Martian terrains shaped by ancient water and billions of years of geological change. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Samantha Mathewson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CzGJm5AyinHUayarB8rT9C-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Portion of a 360-degree panorama, featuring low ridges called boxwork formations, captured by NASA&#039;s Curiosity Mars rover between Nov. 9 and Dec. 7, 2025. At 1.5 billion pixels, it&#039;s one of the largest panoramas Curiosity has ever taken. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Portion of a 360-degree panorama, featuring low ridges called boxwork formations, captured by NASA&#039;s Curiosity Mars rover between Nov. 9 and Dec. 7, 2025. At 1.5 billion pixels, it&#039;s one of the largest panoramas Curiosity has ever taken. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Is Venus volcanically active? Big Hawaiian eruption in 2022 could help scientists find out ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Evidence suggests that Venus is still volcanically active, and new data about a big eruption in Hawaii a few years ago could help scientists find out for sure. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3VYavL3YySBvrUASWVZ5Nh-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Mauna Loa seen erupting from orbit in 2022 by Europe&#039;s Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Mauna Loa seen erupting from orbit in 2022 by Europe&#039;s Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ An Amazon rainforest river from space | Space photo of the day for April 30, 2026 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Ucayali River snakes across the rainforest in this image captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from the International Space Station. ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/enyxA5Ku75Nm323udFx29P-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[An image of the Ucayali River taken from space shows the river snaking in a light brown color across dark blue and green land with some small fluffy white clouds overhead. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An image of the Ucayali River taken from space shows the river snaking in a light brown color across dark blue and green land with some small fluffy white clouds overhead. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope's strange little red dots may really be 'black hole stars', X-ray data suggests ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to answering what these weird objects truly are. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ywqq7nQP6cv5WZcqUqmTKg-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s impression of a window into the heart of a little red dot, revealing the supermassive black hole within.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A tiny black hole with a white-blue disk around it. There are reddish hues all around.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The cosmos wears a galactic sombrero | Space photo of the day for April 29, 2026 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Sombrero galaxy's name fits perfectly. ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ukHJK94AmP74bRtrogiooc-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[A black background of space is speckled with a wide array of stars. At the center is a flat, glowing galaxy shaped like a stretched out sombrero. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A black background of space is speckled with a wide array of stars. At the center is a flat, glowing galaxy shaped like a stretched out sombrero. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Help scientists find spacetime warps in these Euclid Space Telescope images ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new citizen science project invites the public to scan never-before-seen images from the Euclid Space Telescope in search of galaxies bending spacetime. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Samantha Mathewson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mEnHAm8CLhLMtqoXBfSdWM-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A collage of Euclid images shows examples of gravitational lenses, where foreground objects bends and distorts the light of more distant features into arcs or, in rare cases, complete Einstein rings.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[112 squares showing various spacetime warps.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ What is quantum gravity? Scientists think it could explain the beginning of our universe ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed prior to the dawn of time. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JAqBLdgah8EH4oWJvvK7na-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration shows matter rushing forward from a singularity at the dawn of time during the Big Bang.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A blue sparkle of light at the center of the image is surrounded by orange, red and purple clouds swirling outward.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Is Tatooine the norm? Planets may prefer living with two suns instead of one ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than single-star systems. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Sharmila Kuthunur ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/K5FL29Wbg9Gbu55PZPmUES-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Teasdale et al.]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Screenshot from a simulation of a protoplanetary disc around a binary star becoming gravitationally unstable and fragmenting to form planets.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Red-orange concentric circles have a few white dots in them. There are two dots in the very center.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Starbirth shuts down 40,000 light-years from the Milky Way's core — and astronomers don't know why ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the center of our galaxy as you might imagine. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Fzc9DxhUzqz8zi54YDqYve-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Our Milky Way galaxy&#039;s spiral disk is about 100,000 light-years wide, but star formation doesn&#039;t occur across that entire span.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A glowing strip of the Milky Way galaxy is seen in a dark blue night sky with a silhouetted mound with two buildings on top underneath. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he's fighting for Pluto: 'I am very much in the camp of 'make Pluto a planet again' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Should Pluto be a bona fide planet again? NASA is working to "revisit the discussion" on Pluto's planethood status, according to agency chief Jared Isaacman. ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mike Wall ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2FeWM3eSpaiYcVX2y7ZFB5-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testifies during a hearing held by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA&#039;s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Monday, April 27, 2026, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a man in a suit speaks into a microphone]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Scientists learn how much baby stars in Orion weigh — by watching their dance moves ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ By peering deep inside Orion's star-forming gas clouds, radio astronomers have been able to directly measure the masses of young binary stars, confirming that our theoretical models are on the right lines. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Xuc7P3S7G39NH3vHn5QjLf-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An artist&#039;s impression of a young binary star system deep inside a dusty nebula.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[One blue star and one white-yellow star orbiting around one another. Behind, there are dark clouds with orange and pink tints.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Could the moon ever be blockaded? Experts predict cislunar space could be the next Strait of Hormuz ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The ongoing military conflict regarding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz may well mirror a future situation off-Earth — the use of cislunar space, the region between the moon and our planet. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Leonard David ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VsYSgL2gU5aoLURfE4NSe6-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[U.S. Air Force Capt. David Buehler]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory&#039;s Cislunar Highway Patrol System (CHPS), a spaceflight experiment designed to keep track of objects entering, operating in, or leaving cislunar space.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[an illustration of two cube-shaped spacecraft tracing circular paths around the moon, with a distant earth visible in the background]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Did decaying dark matter help create the universe's first supermassive black holes? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may help bridge the gap between theory and observation." ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Black Holes]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fVw9FBhDcaYkFbVqjJGUq-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Robert Lea (created with Canva)]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration of a supermassive black hole against a background of dark matter.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A black circle surrounded by yellow and orange light. The background has purplish lights moving horizontally.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Backyard snapshot delivers stunning galaxy image | Space photo of the day for April 27, 2026 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy, stuns in this ambassador's picture. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Galaxies]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aTTF6GgJDjwyTwjQAb4hj9-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[A black space background covered in stars has a central bright, egg-shaped galaxy with blue and red coloring. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A black space background covered in stars has a central bright, egg-shaped galaxy with blue and red coloring. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ NASA wants to use a fleet of MoonFall drones to scout the lunar south pole: 'We believe we can do it' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ NASA is exploring ways to use a fleet of drones to explore the lunar south pole with an ambitious new MoonFall project. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:14:51 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Leonard David ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JVs9DBYmeYBFYKfZZLTtkB-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[a cube-shaped vehicle soars above a dusty grey surface dotted with craters]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a cube-shaped vehicle soars above a dusty grey surface dotted with craters]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Satellite snaps amazing 36th birthday pic of Hubble Space Telescope (photo) ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The private WorldView Legion 4 Earth-observing satellite snapped an amazing photo of the Hubble Space Telescope on April 23, 2026, a day before the obsevatory's 36th birthday. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Hubble Space Telescope]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mike Wall ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ckyVb2x8cJgGr35yq9MPgM-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Vantor]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Vantor&#039;s WorldView Legion 4 satellite captured this photo of the Hubble Space Telescope on April 23, 2026, from a distance of 38.4 miles (61.8 kilometers).]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Vantor&#039;s WorldView Legion 4 satellite captured this photo of the Hubble Space Telescope on April 23, 2026, from a distance of 38.4 miles (61.8 kilometers).]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why do some starburst galaxies mysteriously shut down? New study provides clues ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new study suggests that most "post-starburst galaxies" cease star formation because they run out of fuel. But that's not the full story. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Stars]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Sutter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TWHWTK8SF8YzjgkwkHpmqd-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright blue clusters of baby stars and pink clumps of ionized hydrogen gas speckled throughout its sweeping spiral arms. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright blue clusters of baby stars and pink clumps of ionized hydrogen gas speckled throughout its sweeping spiral arms. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ This X-ray image shows our solar system 'breathing' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The eROSITA spacecraft has built the most precise map of soft X-rays over Earth, observing a fascinating phenomenon driven by solar winds from the sun. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Solar System]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aL3AdvHWqhUMGka8iwtsd8-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Illustration of the separation of the SWCX foreground emission from the cosmic X-ray sky, for the Western Galactic hemisphere. The stripe patterns visible in the SWCX image result from temporal variations in foreground emission combined with eROSITA&#039;s scanning geometry.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[On the left, a circle shows colorful blobs that make sort of a line pattern in the center. On the right, streaks move outward from a central point.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Famous asteroid Ryugu may have been bombarded by a swarm of tiny space rocks 1,000 years ago ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/famous-asteroid-ryugu-may-have-been-bombarded-by-a-swarm-of-tiny-space-rocks-1-000-years-ago</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Samples of Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft show that the asteroid bears the scars of a recent bombardment by tiny space rocks. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:12:19 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/coUgBAb3bPyzmjx3d7GbzY-1280-80.png">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Jaxa, UTokyo &amp; collaborators/Robert Lea]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An illustration shows the asteroid Ryugu passing through a swarm of micrometeorites.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A gray top-shaped space rock with a swarm of light blue dots behind it.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Ice melts in the springtime on Mars | Space photo of the day for April 24, 2026 ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/ice-melts-in-the-springtime-on-mars-space-photo-of-the-day-for-april-24-2026</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Springtime has arrived at the Red Planet's Chasma Boreale, as this photo by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FBpyTzBvporeGS5cmAgGBU-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[A black and white image of the landscape of Mars with crescent-shaped dunes. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A black and white image of the landscape of Mars with crescent-shaped dunes. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ This latest image from Hubble forms just one of more than 1.7 million observations that the space telescope has made over the past 36 years since it launched on April 24, 1990. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Hubble Space Telescope]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/f4tS79yWcZ7jfosVEybxB7-1280-80.png">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[colorful clouds of gas on a starry background]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[colorful clouds of gas on a starry background]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The twin eruptions briefly disrupted radio signals across the dayside of Earth. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:35:59 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:36:18 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ daisy.dobrijevic@space.com (Daisy Dobrijevic) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Daisy Dobrijevic ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bmRNRSeBBrKq2YxUKcV6AX-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The twin eruptions briefly disrupted radio signals across the dayside of Earth.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a close up view of the sun in space, a large fiery solar flare lifts off the sun in the upper right corner.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ What will happen when our sun starts dying? These 'stellar archaeologists' may have found a clue ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Acting as stellar archaeologists, scientists have found fossilized magnetism on long-dead white dwarf stars, which may help to explain how stars evolve. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:03:00 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Robert Lea ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6shLfB26ig4zfiBnKdmcY9-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[ESA &amp; NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The sun seen in two different X-ray wavelengths, 17.4 and 30.4 nanometers, on 21 May 2024.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A fiery red ball against a black background.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ These 'interstellar glaciers' could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming regions across the Milky Way. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Sharmila Kuthunur ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wLqZ3TYahvA2g3hbEjX6mb-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our Milky Way galaxy.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Streaks of bright blue are shown against a smoky orange and black background.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Ancient volcanic ash seen blowing across Mars in new spacecraft images ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Keith Cooper ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ToLGDWjMRMYMHHpXD6CJAH-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[The wide strip of land in Utopia Planitia imaged by Mars Express. The dark volcanic material is on the right, while grabens can be seen on the left. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[The wide strip of land in Utopia Planitia imaged by Mars Express. The dark volcanic material is on the right, while grabens can be seen on the left.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: 'The structures we're seeing now are breathtaking' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first detailed images of planetary nebula Tc 1, revealing new details of what happens after a sun-like star dies. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <category><![CDATA[Stars]]></category>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Elizabeth Howell ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nK6J9xD4baumF6sCv82Vom-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[An image shows planetary nebula Tc 1 as observed by the James Webb Space Telescope&#039;s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), combining nine filters spanning wavelengths from 5.6 to 25.5 microns, well beyond what the human eye can detect. Blue tones represent hotter gas at shorter mid-infrared wavelengths; red tones trace cooler material at longer wavelengths. The image was processed by Katelyn Beecroft using PixInsight.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[a cloud of blue, white with a ring of red light around it on a black background]]></media:text>
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