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The Sky This Week from December 2 to 9

Tuesday, December 6 Early-morning observers will simply spot the brightest star within the sky, Sirius, sinking within the southwest a couple of hours earlier...

Spring 2022 featured two stunning eclipses

Throwing shade on the Moon The Might 2022 total lunar eclipse often is the darkest since that of Dec. 9/10, 1992, which occurred after...

Sky This Month: November 2022

Search for Neptune about 6.5° west-southwest of Jupiter, due south of the Circlet of Pisces. You possibly can spot the magnitude 7.7 planet...

Lucy captures portrait of Earth and Moon on trip to Trojan asteroids

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this humbling view of Earth and the Moon because it executed its first of three deliberate gravity assists round...

China and United Arab Emirates plan lunar rover mission

The United Arab Emirates’ fledgling space program took one other step ahead final month, securing an settlement to collaborate on China’s deliberate Chang’e...

The Moon may have formed just hours after giant impact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlhlCWplqk A puzzle of planetary proportions The group modeled the Theia-Earth collision roughly 400 occasions, utilizing smoothed particle hydrodynamics of their numerical simulations. This methodology,...

See fall’s best Messier objects

It’s been six months since astronomy golf equipment across the globe hosted occasions for the Messier marathon. The aim of this single-night observing...

Postcards from around the solar system

Lunar landscapes It may appear foolish to assign a lot price to the emotional energy of pictures made by future astronauts. Scientists will argue...

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See 6 planets in late August and early September

See 6 planets earlier than dawn Possibly you’ve already seen Jupiter and Mars within the morning sky? They’re simply...

Voyager 2: Our 1st and last visit to Neptune

Reprinted from NASA. Voyager 2 passes by Neptune, 35 years in the past Thirty-five years in the past, on August...

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