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Deborah Byrd
Fogbow over New Mexico
An early morning fogbow over the desert in northern New Mexico.
April 17, 2019
Check out this peregrine falcon webcam
An EarthSky community member - Jody Kuchar - alerted us to the webcam, which is based in Wisconsin. Thank you, Jody!
April 14, 2019
Use the moon to locate the Crab on April 13
Cancer the Crab is famous, but faint. You likely won't see it tonight, in the moon's glare. But you'll see bright stars around it, and they can guide you to Cancer when the moon moves away.
April 13, 2019
Vote to help name solar system’s largest unnamed body
2007 OR10 has one of the reddest surfaces ever found in our solar system's distant Kuiper Belt. Vote to help decide between 3 possible official names.
April 11, 2019
Astronomers release 1st real black hole image
On April 10, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, researchers unveiled a history-making image - the 1st ever - of the "shadow" of a supermassive black hole.
April 10, 2019
Hubble Telescope joins a Messier Marathon
There are 110 Messier objects. They are some of the sky's most beautiful nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, from a list originally published by Charles Messier in 1774. During a Messier Marathon, stargazers with telescopes try to find as many in one night as they can.
April 10, 2019
Latest predictions for the coming solar cycle
Solar physicists predict another weak 11-year solar cycle ahead. At the same time, they expect the coming cycle to break the trend of weakening solar activity seen over the past 4 cycles, and they add there's "no indication we are currently approaching a Maunder-type minimum in solar activity."
April 9, 2019
Photos of last night’s young moon
The young moon has returned to the west after sunset. Check out these photos from the EarthSky Community.
April 7, 2019
Fireball over New Mexico
You can expect meteor activity to increase in the coming months, as we re-enter a time of year for major meteor showers. Here's what appears to be a random meteor, but a very bright one!
April 5, 2019
Astronomers find a planet fragment orbiting a dead star
The star is a white dwarf, a cool, dead, dense star like our sun some 6 billion years from now. The planet fragment - made of heavy metals - survived a system-wide cataclysm that followed the star's death.
April 4, 2019
