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Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : disquisition , n :
(archaic) A methodical inquiry or investigation. A lengthy, formal discourse that analyses or explains some topic; (loosely) a dissertation or treatise.

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : fatberg , n :
A large accumulation of fat and discarded toiletries which clogs sewers.

Hello, Information from NASA NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was joined Friday by U.S. Representatives Mo Brooks and Robert Aderholt of Alabama and Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to announce the center’s new role leading the agency’s Human Landing System Program for its return to the Moon by 2024.

August 16, 2019
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Hello, Information from NASA An uncrewed Russian Soyuz spacecraft is set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Aug. 21, at 11:38 p.m. EDT (8:38 a.m. Aug. 22 Baikonur time) on a test flight to validate the spacecraft’s compatibility with a revamped Soyuz booster rocket.

August 16, 2019
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Hello guys, We're here with some new information from NASA :
Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this rounded object, named NGC 2022, is certainly not algae or tiny, blobby jellyfish. Instead, it is a vast orb of gas in space, cast off by an aging star.

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