NASA's Mars Insight lander and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have witnessed two fresh new planet-probing impacts.
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The Summer Triangle Effect, a double shadow on Jupiter, the waxing Moon photobombing the solar system's two giants, an Algol dip — plan your skywatching week.
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A team of planetary scientists has reprocessed Apollo-era seismic data to meet modern forms, ensuring that these precious measurements remain usable for the next generation.
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A team of astronomers claims to have measured the lightest neutron star, but others say extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Analyses of just 5.4 grams scooped from the asteroid Ryugu are delivering rich new insights into the history of the solar system.
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While the NSF plans to establish an educational center at the Arecibo Observatory, the institution has stated
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Technology may have revealed a piece of the long-lost works of Greek astronomer Hipparchus, one of the greatest astronomers of antiquity.
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Jupiter remains near its maximum possible size, and Mars continues to grow. Below Jupiter shines the Frog Star. And this week, Arcturus becomes the Ghost of Summer Suns.
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What else is hidden in archival data?
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It doesn't take much to create a spectacle when it comes to astronomical observation. Just a pinch or two of dust.
The post All About the Dust — Orionids and Zodiacal Light appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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Take a few minutes to become an eclipse expert for family and friends.
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A recently detected gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A was so intense that it temporarily blinded instruments and disturbed Earth’s atmosphere.
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Scientists have detected something unusual around a distant quasar — perhaps the first real evidence of a first-generation star.
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Exactly one year from today, the first of two major solar eclipses just six months apart will occur over the Americas.
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With a little luck, observers in Australia and western North America may spy the Lucy spacecraft as it flies by Earth on October 16th.
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These moonless evenings open the sky for good constellation spotting and deep-sky probing.
Pegasus flies high. Draco eyes Vega. And it's time for the Orionid meteors.
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An innovative method enables astronomers to gauge the size and shape of a distant asteroid — and potentially any km-scale object in the solar system.
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Can a newly found exoplanet help explain why Earth and Venus diverged so radically?
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Every time two giant stars swing around each other, they enrich the cosmos with complex organic molecules.
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They needed to slow the moon’s orbit by 73 seconds. They slowed it by more than half an hour.
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