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See it! Wednesday’s penumbral lunar eclipse
Photos of March 23, 2016 penumbral eclipse of the moon. Moon never entered Earth's dark umbral shadow, but, if you look, you'll see a shading on one side of the moon.
March 23, 2016
First of season’s 4 full moons March 23
Four full moons in a season? Yes. Normally there are 3, and that's why - soon - we'll have a Blue Moon (3rd of 4 full moons in a season).
March 23, 2016
Searching for shipwrecks from space
A new study uses satellite images to detect ships' watery graves.
March 23, 2016
Lone galaxy in ‘wilds’ of Local Group
This galaxy is so small and secluded that it may never have interacted with any other Local Group galaxy — or perhaps any other galaxy in the universe.
March 23, 2016
Kepler catches a supernova shockwave
The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft caught the earliest minutes of 2 exploding stars and, for the first time, the flash of supernova shockwave in visible light.
March 23, 2016
Dramatic circular outburst from sun
Video of a circular solar outburst observed last week by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
March 22, 2016
A subtle lunar eclipse on March 23
From all timezones in contiguous North America, this penumbral lunar eclipse happens shortly before dawn on March 23. Charts and info for other parts of the world here.
March 22, 2016
See it! Monday night’s moon and Jupiter
EarthSky friends capture the night sky's 2 brightest objects, the moon and Jupiter, on Monday night, March 21.
March 22, 2016
February 2016 soars past previous warmth record
February 2016 was the warmest February in 136 years of modern temperature records. Last month deviated more from normal than any month on record.
March 22, 2016
Best view yet inside Mars
Scientists have used fluctuations in the orbits of 3 spacecraft to map Mars' gravity. Thanks to this gravity map, it now seems likely that Mars has a molten core.
March 21, 2016
