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Moon and star Regulus before dawn
Everyone around the world can see the moon and Regulus these next 2 mornings. From the Northern Hemisphere, you might also see Mercury.
September 26, 2016
Meteor over Hidden Lake, Montana
The road into the heart of Glacier National Park in Montana is called Going-to-the-Sun Road. Here's a night sky photo over the park's Hidden Lake.
September 25, 2016
Melting sea ice leaves polar bears hungry
“Sea ice really is their platform for life. They are capable of existing on land for part of the year, but the sea ice is where they obtain their main prey.”
September 24, 2016
Star trails at Giant Magellan Telescope site
When completed in 2025, the Giant Magellan super-scope in Chile is expected to have a resolving power 10 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope.
September 24, 2016
Today in science: Michael Faraday
Meet Michael Faraday, the man behind the electric motor and theory of electromagnetism.
September 22, 2016
Dwarf galaxies and dark matter update
Standard cosmology calls for many more dwarf galaxies than we see. A new computer simulation suggests we might not need so many dwarf galaxies, after all.
September 21, 2016
Wildfires in Siberia
2016 has been a bad year for wildfires in the forests of eastern Russia, too.
September 20, 2016
Satellite sees 3 California wildfires
There were more than a dozen wildfires burning in California, as of September 20.
September 20, 2016
Twin jets pinpoint active galaxy’s heart
The supermassive black hole at the heart of NGC 1052 is now the most precisely located supermassive black hole in the universe … almost.
September 19, 2016
