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  Space: The final legal frontier

  The Washington Post - Deanna Paul

  NASA astronaut Anne McClain was accused last week of what may be the first crime committed in space. Former Air Force intelligence officer Summer Worden filed an identify-theft report with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging McClain, her estranged wife, accessed her bank account without …

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  Starwatch: the furthest thing you can see with the naked eye

  The Guardian - Stuart Clark

  Adjust to the dark and you can peer 2.5m years into the past to see our nearest spiral galaxy, Andromeda

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  BBC Sky at Night Magazine

  Aug 26, 2019
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  The Space Between Galaxies Isn’t Empty

  The Atlantic - By Ann Finkbeiner and Knowable Magazine

  Most of the atoms in the universe lie in its flyover country. Most of what astronomers know about the universe comes from what they can see. So their ideas have been prejudiced toward stars and galaxies, which are bright. But most of the regular matter in the universe is in the form of gas, which is …

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  The weird, repeating signals from deep space just tripled

  CNET - Eric Mack

  Scientists suddenly have a whole lot more data on one of the strangest and most recent mysteries in the cosmos, so-called fast radio bursts. First discovered in 2007, these fleeting blasts of radio waves originate thousands, millions or even billions of light-years from Earth. FRBs have influenced …

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  5 Realities Space Advocates Must Face

  Forbes - Bruce Dorminey

  A half-century after the first Moonwalks, talk of travel beyond low-Earth orbit has become so fanciful that it’s almost as if we were back on a quest for the Holy Grail. It shouldn’t be. Let’s don’t over-romanticize space travel. If we’re ever truly going to move off-world, a trip from Earth to the …