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cone-shaped meteorite

News 21 August 2019

Goldilocks Meteors Carved into Cones

Their “just right” shape lends some shooting stars flight stability and symmetry.
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Diagram of two Cassini spacecraft orbit trajectories during the “Grand Finale”

Editors' Highlights 20 August 2019

Newly Discovered Electric Current System Very Close to Saturn

In the tightly confined region between the innermost ring and the planet’s upper atmosphere, the Cassini spacecraft observed signatures of a previously undetected current system.
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Planetary Sciences
A rocky planet near a red star with two stars in the background

News 19 August 2019

Nearest Star System May Have a Second Planet

The exoplanet candidate, tentatively named Proxima c, would be a frozen snowball.
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Planetary Sciences
Schematic showing the basic shape and properties of the heliosphere, the protective magnetic bubble created by the solar wind

Research Spotlight 19 August 2019

Sampling the Space Between the Stars

Data from the Cassini and Voyager spacecraft reveal new information about the Sun’s magnetic bubble.
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Atmospheric Sciences
Clouds and rainbows hang over a broad beach on Britain’s west coast.

Opinion 14 August 2019

When Does Weather Become Climate?

Flexible definitions of the word “climate” may impede policy discussions on climate change. Closing apparent gaps between “climate” and “weather” may help reduce the ambiguity.
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Photos of a sensor on board the Curiosity rover before and after a dust storm

Editors' Highlights 12 August 2019

Curiosity Monitors Rare Global Dust Storm From Mars’s Surface

Since the 1970s, no surface platform had made meteorological measurements of a global dust storm on Mars, but last summer NASA's Curiosity rover witnessed one of these rare events.
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Planetary Sciences
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News 8 August 2019

How Star Wars Won the Space Race and Other Things We’re Reading

What Earth and space science stories are we recommending this week?
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Planetary Sciences
Illustration of oblong planet in front of bright star

News 5 August 2019

Ultrahot Exoplanet Bleeds Heavy Metals into Space

The planet is also shaped like a football (the American kind).
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Planetary Sciences
An X1.6 class solar flare imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2014.

AGU News 1 August 2019

Here Comes the Sun

This August, we look at the relationship we have to our closest star for AGU’s Centennial.
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Geology & Geophysics
Two black rosy finches rest on icy tree branches.

News 1 August 2019

Fish, Birds, a Few Fossils, and Other Things We’re Reading About

What Earth and space science stories are we recommending this week?
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