From space.com

• Twin NASA Satellites Will Ride SpaceX Falcon Heavy to Study Earth's Ionosphere
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:23:10 +0000)
  
  NASA will be launching two identical miniature satellites next week as part of a project designed to help scientists understand how Earth's atmosphere muddies the radio signals we rely on.
  
  
• Krispy Kreme Debuts Doughnut For Apollo 11 Moon Landing 50th
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:20:48 +0000)
  
  Krispy Kreme is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with the launch of a new type of doughnut.
  
  
• New Website Replays Apollo 11 First Moon Landing Mission in Real Time
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:46:00 +0000)
  
  With a single click, a new website can take you back 50 years and place you directly into the real-time action of the first moon landing mission.
  
  
• Smithsonian Extends Apollo 11 Spacecraft Tour, Adds Stop in Cincinnati
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:45:41 +0000)
  
  The spacecraft that carried the crew of the first moon landing to and from Earth 50 years ago has just had its current mission extended.
  
  
• Dune's Bene Gesserit Getting Their Own TV Show
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:00:39 +0000)
  
  Tying into the 2020 movie.
  
  
• 'Ready Jet Go!' Takes Kids to the Moon Today on PBS to Celebrate Apollo 11
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:38:51 +0000)
  
  PBS KIDS is celebrating this summer's Apollo 11 anniversary today (June 17) with a special program "Ready Jet Go!: One Small Step," which celebrates and explores the lunar landing.
  
  
• NASA Is Tracking One of Earth's Most Valuable Resources — Water
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:00:27 +0000)
  
  Water is a complex problem on Earth: Some places get far too little of it and some get far too much.
  
  
• Safety Panel Calls on NASA to Apply Commercial Crew Lessons for Artemis
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:00:01 +0000)
  
  As NASA starts development of lunar landers for Artemis, it should carefully incorporate the lessons learned from the commercial crew program, a safety panel advised.
  
  
• Pictures from Space! Our Image of the Day
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:48:18 +0000)
  
  The arc of the Milky Way galaxy stretches over the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in northern Chile in this panoramic shot by European Southern Observatory photo ambassador Petr Horálek.
  
  
• Bam! Fresh Crater Spied on Mars — and It Looks Spectacular
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:11:13 +0000)
  
  A small space rock crashed into the Martian surface recently, producing a fresh crater that researchers estimate is 49 feet to 53 feet (15 to 16 meters) wide.
  
  
• Migrating Baby Exoplanet Sculpts Disk Around Newborn Star (Photos)
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:56:50 +0000)
  
  Intricate ring structures in the outer portion of the disk of dust and gas that surrounds the young star HD 169142 were likely carved by a newborn planet on the move.
  
  
• June Full Moon 2019: Strawberry Moon Swings by Jupiter and Saturn
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:47:49 +0000)
  
  The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur the morning of June 17 at 4:31 a.m. EDT (0831 GMT).
  
  

From Science Daily

• Earth's heavy metals result of supernova explosion, research reveals
  (Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:10:42 EDT)
  
  New research suggests most of Earth's heavy metals were spewed from a largely overlooked kind of star explosion called a collapsar.
  
  
• NASA's Fermi mission reveals its highest-energy gamma-ray bursts
  (Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:10:40 EDT)
  
  For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the universe's most luminous explosions. A new catalog of the highest-energy blasts provides scientists with fresh insights into how they work.
  
  
• Jupiter-like exoplanets found in sweet spot in most planetary systems
  (Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:29:04 EDT)
  
  A survey of 300 stars in search of exoplanets finds that massive, Jupiter-like gas giants are found just about where Jupiter is in our own solar system.
  
  
• Astrophysicist announces her discovery that could rewrite story of how galaxies die
  (Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:29:02 EDT)
  
  A breakthrough finding overturns assumptions about the maturation of galaxies and may represent a phase of every galaxy's life cycle that was unknown until now.
  
  
• Table salt compound spotted on Europa
  (Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:28:59 EDT)
  
  Researchers have discovered that the yellow color visible on portions of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is actually sodium chloride.
  
  
• Crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its outer disc, new evidence shows
  (Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:13:26 EDT)
  
  The newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy Antlia 2's collision with the Milky Way may be responsible for our galaxy's characteristic ripples in its outer disc, according to a new study.
  
  
• Rare 'superflares' could one day threaten Earth
  (Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:43:49 EDT)
  
  New research shows that the sun could experience a massive burst of energy called a superflare sometime in the next several thousand years.
  
  
• Saturn's moon Mimas: A 'snowplough' in the planet's rings
  (Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:39:41 EDT)
  
  Researchers have shown that Mimas, one of Saturn's moons, acted as a kind of remote snowplough, pushing apart the ice particles that make up the rings.
  
  
• Direct from distant planet: Spectral clues to puzzling paradox
  (Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:01:25 EDT)
  
  CI Tau b is a paradoxical planet, but new research about its mass, brightness and the carbon monoxide in its atmosphere is starting to answer questions about how a planet so large could have formed around a star that's only 2 million years old.
  
  
• Technique pulls interstellar magnetic fields within easy reach
  (Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:15:54 EDT)
  
  A new, more accessible and much cheaper approach to surveying the topology and strength of interstellar magnetic fields -- which weave through space in our galaxy and beyond, representing one of the most potent forces in nature -- has been developed.
  
  
• Astronomers determine mass of small black hole at center of nearby galaxy
  (Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:15:16 EDT)
  
  Astronomers have discovered that a black hole at the center of a nearby dwarf galaxy, called NGC 4395, is about 40 times smaller than previously thought.
  
  
• Mass anomaly detected under the moon's largest crater
  (Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:06:20 EDT)
  
  A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system -- the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin -- and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a new study.
  
  

From Sky & Telescope

• Youngest Confirmed Exoplanet Provides Clues on Its Formation
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:32:14 +0000)
  
  Observations of the youngest confirmed planet, CI Tau b, suggest it's still hot from its birth — a point in favor of a quick-start model of formation. The post Youngest Confirmed Exoplanet Provides Clues on Its Formation appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Astronomers Might Have Found Apollo 10’s “Snoopy” Module
  (Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:48:13 +0000)
  
  A small near-Earth object might be a historic piece of space hardware: the Apollo 10 lunar module, dubbed "Snoopy." The post Astronomers Might Have Found Apollo 10’s “Snoopy” Module appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Evidence for a Dark Matter Clump in the Milky Way
  (Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:53:50 +0000)
  
  There are ghosts in our galaxy’s past. Now astronomers have found a way to detect them. The post Evidence for a Dark Matter Clump in the Milky Way appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Astronomers Stalk the “Taurid Swarm”
  (Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:50:39 +0000)
  
  If theorists are right, next month observers should spot a cluster of potentially hazardous asteroids as they cruise past Earth. The post Astronomers Stalk the “Taurid Swarm” appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Music Inspired by Astronomy: A Catalog
  (Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000)
  
  Catalogs are useful in astronomy. Now there's one dedicated to musical pieces influenced by astronomy. The post Music Inspired by Astronomy: A Catalog appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Astronomers Directly Detect Newborn Planets
  (Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:37:41 +0000)
  
  Infant planets are coming together in a system 370 light-years away, and they’re shedding light on the early lives of Saturn and Jupiter in our solar system. The post Astronomers Directly Detect Newborn Planets appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Jupiter Is Outstanding at Opposition
  (Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:08:05 +0000)
  
  Prime-time Jupiter viewing kicks off this month when the planet reaches opposition on June 10th.  The post Jupiter Is Outstanding at Opposition appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• NICER Maps the X-ray Sky
  (Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:09:41 +0000)
  
  NASA's NICER instrument aboard the International Space Station is giving us a unique view of much of the X-ray sky. The post NICER Maps the X-ray Sky appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Does Starlink Pose a Space Debris Threat? An Expert Answers
  (Tue, 04 Jun 2019 01:26:37 +0000)
  
  SpaceX's Starlink satellites have come under heavy criticism for their potential to clutter the sky. Here's what a space debris expert has to say about it. The post Does Starlink Pose a Space Debris Threat? An Expert Answers appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  
• Astronomy and D-Day: The Sun, Moon, and Tides at Normandy
  (Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:30:55 +0000)
  
  The invasion of occupied France on June 6, 1944, changed the course of the Second World War. Astronomy played a crucial role in the timing of the event. The post Astronomy and D-Day: The Sun, Moon, and Tides at Normandy appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
  

GDACS - Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:10km) in [unknown] 17/06/2019 20:03 UTC, No people within 100km.
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:03:11 GMT)
  
  On 6/17/2019 8:03:11 PM, an earthquake occurred in [unknown] potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:10km.
  
  
• Grey earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.7M, Depth:750km) in [unknown] 17/06/2019 15:04 UTC, No people within 100km.
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:04:23 GMT)
  
  On 6/17/2019 3:04:23 PM, an earthquake occurred in [unknown] potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.7M, Depth:750km.
  
  
• Orange earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.8M, Depth:10km) in China 17/06/2019 14:55 UTC, 10810000 people within 100km.
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:55:45 GMT)
  
  On 6/17/2019 2:55:45 PM, an earthquake occurred in China potentially affecting 10810000 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.8M, Depth:10km.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 6M, Depth:16km) in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand 17/06/2019 06:02 UTC, No people within 100km.
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 06:02:05 GMT)
  
  On 6/17/2019 6:02:05 AM, an earthquake occurred in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 6M, Depth:16km.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:109.09km) in Indonesia 17/06/2019 05:43 UTC, 630000 people within 100km.
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:43:31 GMT)
  
  On 6/17/2019 5:43:31 AM, an earthquake occurred in Indonesia potentially affecting 630000 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:109.09km.
  
  
• Volcanic eruption is on going for Sabancaya in Peru
  (Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT)
  
  Volcano Sabancaya is emitting ash clouds according to the regional VAAC. The aviation alert level is Green.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:35km) in Kermadec Islands Region 16/06/2019 20:58 UTC, No people within 100km.
  (Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:58:26 GMT)
  
  On 6/16/2019 8:58:26 PM, an earthquake occurred in Kermadec Islands Region potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:35km.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 6.3M, Depth:35km) in Kermadec Islands Region 16/06/2019 05:17 UTC, No people within 100km.
  (Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:17:16 GMT)
  
  On 6/16/2019 5:17:16 AM, an earthquake occurred in Kermadec Islands Region potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 6.3M, Depth:35km.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:35km) in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand 16/06/2019 03:02 UTC, No people within 100km.
  (Sun, 16 Jun 2019 03:02:39 GMT)
  
  On 6/16/2019 3:02:39 AM, an earthquake occurred in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:35km.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 7.2M, Depth:34.4km) in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand 15/06/2019 22:55 UTC, No people within 100km.
  (Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:55:02 GMT)
  
  On 6/15/2019 10:55:02 PM, an earthquake occurred in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand potentially affecting No people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 7.2M, Depth:34.4km.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 6.1M, Depth:10km) in Tonga 15/06/2019 21:56 UTC, About 5000 people within 100km.
  (Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:56:09 GMT)
  
  On 6/15/2019 9:56:09 PM, an earthquake occurred in Tonga potentially affecting About 5000 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 6.1M, Depth:10km.
  
  
• Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.6M, Depth:109.23km) in Indonesia 14/06/2019 20:10 UTC, Few people within 100km.
  (Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:10:52 GMT)
  
  On 6/14/2019 8:10:52 PM, an earthquake occurred in Indonesia potentially affecting Few people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.6M, Depth:109.23km.