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Posts by
Deborah Byrd
Saturday night’s extremely young moon
Photo and animation of an extremely young moon - only 18 hours past the new phase - setting over a hill last night, as seen from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
June 25, 2017
Sunset
No matter where you are on Earth, your northernmost sunsets of the year are happening around now.
June 20, 2017
Elon Musk’s Mars manifesto
What if the cost of going to Mars as a colonist were less than US $200,000, or about the median cost of a house in the U.S.? Would you go? Elon Musk thinks many would.
June 18, 2017
A ribbon of ammonia in Orion
Radio telescopes have detected a 50-light-year filament of star-forming gas, zigzagging its way through the northern portion of the Orion Molecular Cloud.
June 18, 2017
Saturn over New York City
Think you can't see stars or planets from the city? Check out these 2 photos of Saturn over New York.
June 17, 2017
Did our sun have a twin?
A new analysis suggests the likely answer is yes — though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike star.
June 14, 2017
Milky Way over the Everglades
Watch this video, showing Earth spinning under the sky of the southern Everglades in Florida.
June 14, 2017
Galaxies have aligned for 10 billion years
Most galaxies are randomly oriented in space, but the biggest ones often point toward their neighbors. A new study traces these alignments back into the early universe.
June 13, 2017
Dwarf star bends light, confirms Einstein
Awesome observation! Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the mass of a nearby white dwarf, as it bent the light of a more distant star.
June 10, 2017
Fav photos: 2017’s smallest full moon
EarthSky friends outdid themselves this weekend, taking photos of the full moon. Thanks to all who contributed!
June 10, 2017
