SCIENCE: EXONEWS

I was uncertain where to post these recent stories, and thought that rather than attempt to tack them on to an existing thread, I'd start a thread that anyone can use to post news and interesting stories about the world outside our world. I only ask that the stories be restricted to what's going on off the Earth, in our solar system and beyond.

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Here are some recent stories about both our solar system, and about star systems far away:

A mission to the asteroid belt: NASA Prepares to Launch First U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Mission.

Marching to the tune of a different drummer: BEYOND NEPTUNE, A CHUNK OF ICE IS ORBITING THE SUN IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

Possible exoplanet orbits Proxima Centauri: Rumored Exoplanet May be Closest Earth-Like Planet Ever Discovered

More on the Proxima Centauri story from Hubble: The proper motion path of Proxima Centauri.

Also from Huble, a bad neighborhood: White dwarf lashes red dwarf with mystery ray.

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It seems to me that the more we learn about the cosmos, the more clearly we see how very little we really know about how the cosmos is organized.