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Photos from friends: First full moon of 2013
Beautiful photos of January 2013 full moon, as captured by EarthSky Facebook friends. Thank you all.
January 27, 2013
Deep Space Industries joins the asteroid gold rush
Deep Space is the second company in less than a year to say it will join the rush to the rich fields of water and precious metals in near-Earth asteroids.
January 22, 2013
Awesome photos of January 21 Jupiter-moon conjunction, and more
The best moon and Jupiter photos from late last year, plus the wonderful sight of these two brilliant worlds on January 21, 2013. Wow!
January 22, 2013
How Titan’s weather has changed its surface
Members of Cassini spacecraft radar team have made the first quantitative estimate of how much the weather on Titan has modified its surface.
January 19, 2013
Space images of the week
A compilation of the best space photos and images from earthsky.org for the week of January 14-18.
January 18, 2013
Large sunspot region now facing Earth, might produce X-flare today
NOAA forecasters are also estimating a 30% to 45% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on January 17, 2013 when a CME is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field.
January 17, 2013
Curiosity rover on Mars poised to have its drilling debut
See what the Curiosity rover sees as it's poised on the edge of a possible first drilling site on Mars. It might start drilling a few days from now.
January 15, 2013
Video: Final footage before GRAIL moon mission crash landing
This final, breathtaking footage from the successful GRAIL moon mission was taken just six miles (10 kilometers) above the moon's surface on December 14, 2012.
January 14, 2013
Asteroid Apophis to sweep closely past Earth on January 9, 2013
At present, there's a remote chance that Apophis will strike us in 2036. It's expected to drop to zero after the early 2013 pass of Apophis near Earth.
January 8, 2013
Habitable zone around stars might be larger than we think
Could life survive on a world whose orbit around a distant sun was extremely oblong and eccentric? Such a world would have periods of extreme heat and cold.
January 7, 2013
