All posts tagged "Sky"

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This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 17 – 26 – Sky & Telescope
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 ■ Here it is the coldest very bottom of the year (on average). But the Summer Star, Vega, is...
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‘The river that runs in the sky’: readers choose their wonders of the world | Travel
Britain’s highest aqueduct Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the centrepiece of a world heritage site that crosses three counties and two countries....
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Debris seen in sky after SpaceX Starship rocket breaks up after launch – video | SpaceX
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at...
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Webb Telescope Watches Rippling Dust Shells – Sky & Telescope
Comparison of two mid-infrared images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. At center is Wolf-Rayet 140, two massive stars in elongated...
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New Mercury Images from BepiColombo’s Flyby – Sky & Telescope
Shots from BepiColombo’s recent Mercury flyby. ESA / BepiColombo / MTM This is a year for flybys, and the very first one...
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This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 10 – 19 – Sky & Telescope
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 ■ This evening the Moon shines in line with Jupiter and Aldebaran, as shown below. How exactly in line?...
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See January’s “Planet Parade,” plus Comet ATLAS Now Visible in Daylight – Sky & Telescope
This montage of Hubble imagery shows the four bright planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and Venus — and the two fainter ones,...
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Pluto and Charon May Have Formed in a “Kiss-and-Capture” – Sky & Telescope
We used to think that the crash that built Pluto and Charon totally obliterated the impactor and built two brand-new worlds out...
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Celebrate Hubble’s 35th Year with This Observing Challenge – Sky & Telescope
The Crab Nebula in Taurus is the six-light-year-wide remnant of a supernova explosion seen in 1054 AD. This composite image was assembled...
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A total eclipse of the Moon, Saturn’s rings ‘disappear’, meteors and more: your guide to the southern sky in 2025 | Astronomy
Each night an annual parade of constellations passes above our heads but there are always exciting, less frequent events to look out...
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Quadrantid meteor shower to light up northern hemisphere sky | Meteors
While fireworks are a traditional way to welcome the new year, a natural phenomenon will be lighting up the northern sky this...
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No telescope needed: how to navigate the Australian night sky in summer | Virginia Kilborn
It’s summer in Australia and that means many of us head out of the city and off to a remote camping site,...
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Blue sky thinking: six sun-drenched seaside getaways in southern Europe | Travel
Loutro, Crete, Greece Depending on how you look at it, Loutro is either deeply inhospitable or a rare slice of seaside perfection. Backed...
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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Heads to the Moon – Sky & Telescope
A Falcon 9 rocket launches with Blue Ghost NASA / Frank Michaux A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket headed skyward early this morning,...
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Grab Your Binoculars for Comet ATLAS’s Brief Sunset Show – Sky & Telescope
Clouds thwarted Petr Horálek’s attempt to see Comet ATLAS on Jan. 14th, so he drove from Slovakia to Hungary over 400 kilometers...
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Industrial Project Threatens Dark Chilean Skies – Sky & Telescope
The dark skies above the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory, home to the Very Large Telescope, yield breathtaking views so clear and...

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