The planet Venus is the undisputed star of the night skies this year. Venus, now in our southwest sky for about two hours after sunset, is almost like a stellar sequined showgirl, currently starring nightly in her brilliant performance.
NASA’s Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin launched toward the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on Sept. 21, 2022. The trio was supposed to …
The Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter captured an image of the Earth rising above the lunar surface shortly after arriving in orbit around the moon. From Korean Aerospace Research Institute.
Tonight’s new moon may be invisible, but that doesn’t make it any less significant. It’s not often we get excited about a new moon from a skywatching perspective, given that you can’t see anything from the vantage point of Earth. (New moons occur when …
The team of scientists included Field Museum and the University of Chicago researcher Maria Valdes, who estimated that of the 45,000 meteorites recovered to date from the icy wasteland of Antarctica, only 100 or so have been as large as the largest member …
Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb. Read Later. The Webb telescope has spotted galaxies …
On the evenings of January 25 and 26, 2023, the waxing crescent moon meets up with Jupiter. So if you see a bright “star” near the moon on those evenings, it’s the planet Jupiter. You can’t miss them if you look!
“Because it’s biologically expensive to produce offspring, we wanted to know why these females make what appears to be an error in their reproductive strategy.” The study looked at red squirrels living in …
Lunar eclipses happen during a special alignment between the moon, Earth, and sun. Specifically, the event occurs when the moon and sun line up on exact opposite sides of our planet. The moon falls into Earth’s shadow.
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