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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

Post	Score	Posted
Peripheral but I think relevant: Patrick Stewart has died.	18339	8d ago
Colors of the Moon Credit: Marcella Giulia Pace	9083	5d ago
Beautiful Image of recent Launch of ISRO GSLV MK2 by ChennaiAstronomyClub	4448	6d ago
China publicly announces detailed plan to land astronauts on the Moon within the next three years \| The lunar landings will involve a lunar-orbit rendezvous similar to what NASA did in the 1960s & 70s with the Apollo program — though the crew and lunar lander will launch separately to the Moon	2745	4d ago
JWST discovers mysterious object with one single emission line in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field within the constellation of Fornax — where there doesn't seem to be anything at all	2660	5d ago
Crew from NASA's simulated Mars mission emerges after 378 days in isolation	2477	5d ago
OFFICIAL: NASA's Swift Observatory has today crash landed back on Earth, concluding a historic 22-year mission that provided significant discoveries about gamma-ray bursts, exploding stars and black-holes	1800	2d ago
How American Astronauts Are Casting Their Midterm Votes From Space	1650	3d ago
A sugar-cube-sized piece of neutron-star material would weigh about a billion tons on Earth	1514	2d ago
On this day, in 1957, the dog Laika became the first earthling to go into orbit.	1441	3d ago

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