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See it! Morning planets and the moon in photos
In late March of 2022, the dawn sky put on a spectular show of morning planets and the waning moon. See EarthSky community members' photos here.
March 28, 2022
Conjunction time! See planets and moon March 28
See the morning planets - Venus, Mars and Saturn - in conjunction, plus the moon joins the view on March 27 and 28. If you get a great photo, send it to us!
March 27, 2022
Asteroid Ryugu harbors life’s building blocks
Researchers discovered an abundance of organic materials, including amino acids, in samples brought back to Earth from asteroid Ryugu.
March 27, 2022
Solar filaments, aka prominences, arc upwards
Solar filaments (aka prominences, when viewed on the limb of the sun) are large, bright arcs of solar material and magnetic fields.
March 26, 2022
Solar Orbiter passes historically close to sun on Saturday
Solar Orbiter will make a historically close pass of the sun on March 26, 2022. All 10 of its instruments will be operating to acquire close-up data.
March 26, 2022
Perseverance rover sprints to Martian delta
NASA's Perseverance rover is heading to an ancient river delta on Mars in record time, thanks to an advanced navigation system using artificial intelligence.
March 26, 2022
Whoa! Another asteroid whizzes past Earth hours after discovery
Krisztián Sárneczky, the same astronomer who discovered 2022 EB5, discovered another asteroid just hours before it flew so close to Earth that it dipped into our shadow.
March 25, 2022
Mysterious Maunder Minimum: Nearby star offers clues
We may learn more about the sun's Maunder Minimum - a quiet period of low sunspots in the 1600s and 1700s - thanks to the help of a nearby sun-like star.
March 24, 2022
Odd radio circles perplex astronomers
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory released a new image of ORCs on March 22, 2022. ORCs are odd radio circles in space.
March 23, 2022
NASA confirms 5000 exoplanets in cosmic milestone
NASA/JPL announced on March 21, 2022, that the count of confirmed planets beyond our solar stands just over 5000 exoplanets, a 30-year journey of discovery.
March 22, 2022
