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Favorite photos from 2020’s Perseid meteor shower
Have you caught any Perseid meteors? If so, share your photos with us! If your skies have been cloudy, enjoy these great meteor photos from EarthSky friends around the world.
August 15, 2020
Astronomers spy a Milky Way look-alike 12 billion light-years away
This distant galaxy - SPT0418-47 - surprised astronomers by being organized enough to have a spinning disk and a galactic bulge, early in the history of our universe.
August 13, 2020
Gulf of Mexico dead zone: Summer 2020 forecast
NOAA scientists forecast that this summer’s dead zone would measure roughly 6,700 square miles - bigger than the long-term average recorded since 1985, but lower than 2017’s record-high extent.
July 28, 2020
New view of old light adds twist to debate over universe’s age
Observations of the cosmic microwave background by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile suggest that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.
July 19, 2020
Giant A-68 iceberg 3 years on
The colossal iceberg that split from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 is now in the open waters of the South Atlantic, about 650 miles (1,050 km) from its birthplace.
July 17, 2020
5 years after New Horizons flyby, 10 cool things about Pluto
Here are 10 of the coolest, weirdest and most unexpected findings about the Pluto system scientists have learned thanks to the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of the distant world in 2015.
July 16, 2020
Nishinoshima volcano belches ash and lava
A young volcanic island in the western Pacific Ocean has been going through a vigorous growth spurt since mid-June 2020.
July 12, 2020
Curiosity Mars rover’s summer road trip has begun
After more than a year in a clay-rich region, Curiosity is making a mile-long journey around some deep sand so that it can explore higher up Mount Sharp.
July 10, 2020
10 years of the sun in 1 hour
A new timelapse from NASA’s SDO Observatory condenses an entire solar cycle into 1 hour.
July 5, 2020
How much oxygen comes from the ocean?
At least half of Earth’s oxygen comes from the ocean.
June 24, 2020
