All posts tagged "Sky"
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8SpaceCatch a Spectacular Total Lunar Eclipse on March 13-14 – Sky & Telescope
Sky & Telescope Consulting Editor Gary Seronik captured this triptych portrait of the January 2019 total lunar eclipse. Gary Seronik It’s been...
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4SpaceEuropa Clipper Successfully Passed By Mars En Route to Jupiter – Sky & Telescope
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper as it flies by Mars, using the planet’s gravitational force to alter the spacecraft’s path...
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5SpaceFederal Shake-up: Impacts on Space Science and U.S. Leadership – Sky & Telescope
The ongoing steps taken by President Donald Trump’s administration to transform and reduce in size the federal workforce is already impacting the...
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8SpaceMarch’s Night Sky Notes: Messier Madness
by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific During the 18th century, astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier wanted to distinguish the...
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9SpaceBlue Ghost Lands on the Moon – Sky & Telescope
Blue Ghost sees its shadow, on the surface of the Moon.Firefly Aerospace It’s down. In a first for a commercial company, Firefly...
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21SpaceWatch ‘rare’ planetary parade online for free today as 7 planets align across the sky (video)
Grand Tour through the Solar System: see all the planets plus the Moon at a glance – 28 Feb. 2025 – YouTube...
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16SpaceMarch Podcast: Planets, Stars, and Eclipses! – Sky & Telescope
Listen to this episode on Sky & Telescope’s YouTube channel. This will be a month of transition in more ways than one....
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191SpaceAsteroid Won’t Hit Earth, But Might Hit Moon — a Potential Science Bonanza – Sky & Telescope
An artist’s illustration of an asteroidN. Bartmann / ESA / Webb / ESO / M. Kornmesser and S. Brunier / N. Risinger...
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9SpaceThis Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 28 – March 9 – Sky & Telescope
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 ■ While twilight is fading 20 or 30 minutes after sunset, look 16° below Venus (about a fist and...
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15SpaceSecond Intuitive Machines Mission Heads to the Moon – Sky & Telescope
The Athena lunar lander. NASA / MSFC / Intuitive Machines A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched with the second set...
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18SpaceNorth to the Aurora! – Sky & Telescope
Passengers aboard the MS Nordkapp use their smartphones to photograph a spectacular auroral display on Feb. 17. Since phones stack short exposures,...
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17SpaceWhy Is Mars Red? – Sky & Telescope
This view of Mars includes data at near-infrared and near-ultraviolet wavelengths.ESA Since the first Mars probes sent home images of the Red...
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24SpaceRecord-breaking Ghost-like Particle Found in the Mediterranean Sea – Sky & Telescope
This artist’s impression shows part of the KM3NET neutrino detector, being built deep in the Mediterranean Sea. It’s not to scale —...
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22SpaceWindow into Hot Jupiter Reveals Multilayered Winds – Sky & Telescope
Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on...
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20SpaceThis Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 21 – March 2 – Sky & Telescope
The T Cor Bor watch picks up again. Last summer and fall, many watched closely for the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis...
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27SpaceEuclid Discovers Einstein Ring Around Nearby Galaxy – Sky & Telescope
The ring of light surrounding the center of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is an example of an...
