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Another chance! Moon and Saturn
Lighted portion of tonight's crescent moon points to the sunset. Saturn is near the moon. Binoculars can help you glimpse it as it leaves the evening sky.
November 13, 2015
Video: Why your body is amazing
Some fun for a Friday, from the guys at AsapScience.
November 13, 2015
Cassini spots monstrous ice cloud on Titan
As winter sets in at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a massive ice cloud has been forming. It's the "button" in this image from the Cassini spacecraft.
November 13, 2015
Lunar alpenglow and Orion
The beautiful constellation Orion, and all that surrounds it in the sky. Plus light from the setting moon on the sacred Chana Dorje peak in Tibet.
November 12, 2015
Try for moon and Saturn after sunset
These next several days might be your last chance to view Saturn in the evening sky this year. On November 30, Saturn will transition into the morning sky.
November 12, 2015
Comet Encke pelts Mercury with meteors
This comet is the same one causing the amazing display of Taurid fireballs on Earth this year. And so our solar system begins to seem a little more familiar.
November 11, 2015
Pluto, backlit
Crescent Pluto, acquired as New Horizons sped past in July on its way deeper into the Kuiper Belt.
November 11, 2015
Pluto might have ice volcanoes
Two of Pluto's mountains could be cryovolcanoes - ice volcanoes - that might have spewed an ammonia-ice slurry in the recent geological past.
November 10, 2015
Pluto’s moons spinning wildly
"These are four of the strangest moons in the solar system," said New Horizons mission's Mark Showalter. "We still don't know what to make of it."
November 10, 2015
Venus, Jupiter and Mars trails
The morning planets rising above an observatory in Malaysia.
November 10, 2015
