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It is with great sadness that we've learned this morning of the passing of Heather Couper, a wonderful astronomer, writer and science communicator who we were very proud to work with over the years. bbc.co.uk/news/enter…

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#OTD in 1930, the dwarf planet Pluto was identified by Clyde Tombaugh of Lowell Observatory. He found it by playing the worst game of spot the difference ever, looking for a single faint dot moving between two images, not certain that there actually was anything that had moved! pic.twitter.com/VJ2N…

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On this day in 1990, sister ship @NASAVoyager (V1) took this portrait of our Solar System: go.usa.gov/3rl pic.twitter.com/MYkW…

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HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA)
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MarsPoetica O bitter is the knowledge that one draws from the voyage! The monotonous and tiny world, today Yesterday, tomorrow, always, shows us our reflections, An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom! –Charles Baudelaire, “Le Voyage” pic.twitter.com/y3zC…

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HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA)
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HiPOD 15 Feb 2020: An Oblong Impact Crater in Terra Cimmeria Here we observe a portion of an impact crater that is elliptical rather than circular. How do we know this is a crater and not a volcanic or tectonic feature? uahirise.org/hipod/E… NASA/JPL/UArizona pic.twitter.com/Lnwd…

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    • Wed 26th Feb 2020

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