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Deborah Byrd
New Year greeting from Canis Major
Sirius, the sky's brightest star, is sometimes called the Dog Star because it's in the constellation Canis Major, the Greater Dog. In this Chinese Year of the Dog ... a photo from Hong Kong.
February 20, 2018
Return of the young moon, and Venus
Two lovely and hopeful signs in the sky ... the returning young moon and Venus. Photos here from the EarthSky community.
February 19, 2018
Hubble sees Neptune’s dark storm die
In the 1980s, Voyager 2 discovered a dark storm in Neptune's dense atmosphere, and now the Hubble Space Telescope is tracking Neptune's storms. More in this NASA video.
February 18, 2018
ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole’s spinning disk
For decades, astronomers have been talking about of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores. Now they say they've clearly confirmed a black hole's encircling, dusty, spinning disk of gas.
February 17, 2018
See it! Partial solar eclipse
View photos of the February 15, 2018 partial solar eclipse, which was visible from South America.
February 16, 2018
Interstellar asteroid’s tumble suggests a violent past
The 1st known interstellar asteroid - 'Oumuamua - is tumbling chaotically. A new study suggests its tumble resulted from a violent collision.
February 14, 2018
Jupiter’s North Temperate Belt
Did you know that NASA encourages people to download the RAW images from Juno's ongoing flybys of Jupiter, and also to process them?
February 13, 2018
Moon’s bulge reveals its slow retreat from Earth
As the young moon receded from Earth and began spinning more slowly, its large equatorial bulge would have shrunk, cooled and hardened. Today, this fossil bulge on the moon tells a story about the early solar system.
February 13, 2018
Spacecraft snaps new farthest-from-Earth images
Voyager 1 captured its famous Pale Blue Dot image at a record distance in 1990. It took 27 years to beat that record, but now New Horizons has.
February 12, 2018
Sunday morning moon and Saturn
An astrophotographer in Alamosa, Colorado, went outside before dawn to clear the snow. Then he noticed the moon and Saturn. That image and more, below.
February 11, 2018
