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Deborah Byrd
See it! Moon passes Venus and Mars
Did you see the moon sweep past the planets this week? Spectacular images from EarthSky friends here. Thanks to all who submitted!
October 18, 2017
More evidence for a Planet 9
No new large planet on the outskirts of our solar system has yet been discovered, although evidence is building, astronomers say. By the way, if Planet 9 does exist … it's definitely not headed our way.
October 17, 2017
Lenticular cloud over Mt. Rainier
Gary Peltz in Seattle caught this spectacular image of a lenticular cloud over Mt. Rainier on October 14, 2017.
October 17, 2017
Gravitational waves, and more, from merging neutron stars
On Monday, LIGO and Virgo announced the 1st detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars, and 1st observed in both gravitational waves and light. "It ushers in a new era in astronomy."
October 16, 2017
The UK had a red sun Monday
Social media was buzzing on Monday with photos and accounts of the red sun over the UK. British weather forecasters said it was dust from the Sahara, raised via Hurricane Ophelia.
October 16, 2017
Egg-shaped Haumea has a ring
Dwarf planet Haumea - which orbits our sun in Pluto's realm of the solar system - has become the first trans-Neptunian object known to be encircled by a ring.
October 16, 2017
Big Dipper over Horseshoe Spring, Utah
The famous Big Dipper asterism, caught mirrored in Horseshoe Spring, one of many natural hot springs in Utah’s West Desert.
October 16, 2017
Intense storms batter Saturn moon Titan
“I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that,” said a researcher. Instead, the storms on Titan happen about once a Saturn-year, creating massive floods in an otherwise-desert terrain.
October 14, 2017
ISS over Puget Sound, Washington
Photographer John Nelson used NASA's SpotTheStation website to learn when the International Space Station would make a high pass in his sky. This image is the result.
October 14, 2017
Peering to the Milky Way’s far side
Astronomers use parallax to directly measure the distance to a star-forming region on the opposite side of our Milky Way galaxy, nearly doubling the previous distance record.
October 14, 2017
