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Vera Rubin’s Camera is complete, where are rogue planets coming from, NASA chooses suppliers for its new lunar rover, and an earlier formation for the Moon.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:14 Vera Rubin's camera is ready
  
  

  • https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2407/

• 01:39 Where do rogue planets come from
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166406/where-are-all-these-rogue-planets-coming-from/

• 03:44 NASA gives contracts for new Moon rovers
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166500/nasa-teams-lunar-terrain-vehicle/

• 05:32 SLIM's still alive
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166431/against-all-odds-japans-slim-lander-survived-a-second-lunar-night-upside-down/

• 06:48 Hopping on the Moon
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166473/a-robot-hopper-to-explore-the-moons-dangerous-terrain/

• 08:54 Vote results

• 09:45 Earliest possible Moon formation
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166479/whats-the-earliest-the-moon-could-have-formed/

• 11:54 Simulating a neutron star surface
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/166434/it-takes-a-supercomputer-to-properly-simulate-a-neutron-stars-surface/

• 13:19 Newsletter

• 13:59 How to watch the eclipse

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