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Did you miss the full Buck moon? Enjoy Friday's moon illusion thanks to Louisville's clearer skies
The moon will be 99% full Friday night, and with mostly clear skies expected for Louisville in the evening, tonight is a good ...
Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s response to space weather conditions. However, to more directly study incoming ...
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Have Astronomers Found Signs of Life in Venus’s Atmosphere? UK-led VERVE Mission Aims to Investigate
The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.
Mystery space rock blazing through solar system ‘may be oldest comet ever seen’ – and there’s a chance you can spot it
AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...
Closest-ever images of the Sun captured by Nasa probe
NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has gradually circled closer to the sun, flying ...
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What If a Black Hole Passed Near the Solar System?
Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .
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The Sky This Week from July 11 to 18: The Moon hangs with Saturn and Neptune
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 11The Moon passes just 0.02° north of the dim, distant ...
Sun rises in the west and sets in the east: Why does Venus have an opposite spin?
Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...