Starting around this week – the week of December 12, 2022 – you can see all 5 bright planets in the early evening sky. You will need to start looking shortly after sunset, as Venus and Mercury are close to sunset glare. Scanning with binoculars will help reveal them, but also try with your eye …
See bigger. | Artist’s concept of a young Mars, with an ocean. Could Mars have been the first planet in our solar system to harbor life? Image via NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Could Mars have been the first planet in our solar system to harbor life? New research suggests it is possible. Recently, EarthSky reported …
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NASA Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams pose for a photo during T-38 pre-flight activities at Ellington Field in Houston on August 16, 2022. NASA established a busy crew schedule for the ISS in 2023. Image via NASA/Robert Markowitz. NASA sets busy crew schedule for ISS in 2023 More …
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See bigger. | Artist’s concept of a comet-like object falling towards a white dwarf star. Astronomers recently analyzed the atmospheres of 237 white dwarfs. Materials from comets and asteroids have collided with stars and “polluted” their atmospheres. From this study, the researchers learned that stars and planets form simultaneously and rapidly. Image via ESA/ Hubble/ …
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I captured a meteor #c8ff042 in Brantford, Ontario Canada at with my GoPro He was capturing 30 second snaps all night and got this snap pic.twitter.com/grTgtPQreU —Dereck Bowen (@dereckbowen) November 19, 2022 An asteroid hit Canada and may have dropped meteorites Astronomers spotted an asteroid just hours before it hits Earth on Saturday morning (November …
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New supermoons occur when the moon is both new and closest to Earth that month. At the new moon, the sun, earth, and moon are aligned in space, with the moon in the middle. The moon crosses the sky with the sun during the day. At these times, the night side of the moon – …
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Earlier this week, another ISS resupply mission – a Cygnus freighter named the SS Sally Ride – limped to the space station with just 1 of 2 solar panels deployed, before being captured by NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, using the robotic arm Canadarm2, on November 9. Image via NASA/ NASA TV/ SciTech Daily. ISS resupply …
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