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Deborah Byrd
This morning’s moon
The June 5, 2013 moon. It's now waning and in the sky only before dawn. Soon, though, the moon will be back in the evening sky, waxing toward a supermoon.
June 5, 2013
See this blurry blue dot? It’s the lightest exoplanet imaged so far
The new planet - designated HD 95086 b - has a predicted mass of only four to five times that of Jupiter.
June 3, 2013
If you made a sphere of all Earth’s water, how big would it be?
Earth is the water planet. What if you could take all of the water on Earth and form it into a sphere? How big would it be?
June 3, 2013
A last look at Jupiter
The giant planet Jupiter is about to disappear into the sunset. Jean-Baptiste Feldmann captured Jupiter, along with Venus and Mercury, on June 1.
June 3, 2013
Aurora over Oregon’s Mt. Hood this weekend
Beautiful aurora seen in Oregon on Friday night (May 31-June 1). Ben Coffman was at Trillium Lake, near Mount Hood, when he captured it.
June 1, 2013
Images and video of asteroid 1998 QE2 flyby
No danger ... and yet this asteroid captured the attention of astronomers worldwide.
June 1, 2013
Watch or participate in asteroid 1998 QE2 flyby today
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will pass about 15 times the moon's distance. Several organizations are looking at it, and you can join the fun.
May 31, 2013
Planetary trio has ended. Where do the planets go next?
Jupiter, Venus and Mercury are no longer within a 5-degree circle. But you can still see all three in the west after sunset for a few more days.
May 30, 2013
As Earth warms, Arctic is warming fastest
The Arctic has been warming about twice as fast as the rest of the globe. A new map from NASA illustrates this uneven warming.
May 29, 2013
This date in science: First space shuttle docking with ISS
On May 29, 1999, the Discovery space shuttle became the first to dock with ISS. But the first image of a shuttle docked with ISS took 12 more years.
May 29, 2013
