This New Star Is a Ticking Time Bomb | SciShow News

We might be sitting next to the largest bomb in the galaxy and NASA's InSight lander will touch down on Mars this Monday!

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Sources:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0617-7
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https://mars.nasa.gov/news/1516/nasa-evaluates-four-candidate-sites-for-2016-mars-mission/?site=insight
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/landing/entry-descent-landing/
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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco.php
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Images:
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~gekko/apep.html
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0917a/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_cosmic_couple.jpg
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https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22121/insight-approaching-mars/?site=insight
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22100/insight-on-its-parachute-illustration/?site=insight
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