(AP) -- The year's first total eclipse of the moon will last an unusually long time, a rare celestial treat for a wide swath of the globe.
Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2011
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A mass coral spawning has begun on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, with early indications the annual event could be among the biggest in recent years, local marine biologists said Sunday.
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Nov 17, 2019
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The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in this new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. Taken using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this may well be the sharpest ...
Astronomy
Sep 18, 2013
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On Monday, January 21st, the Moon will appear amazingly close in the sky to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter. The waxing gibbous Moon—the lunar phase between first-quarter Moon and full Moon—will be approximately ...
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2013
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(AP)—Reports of a flash of light that streaked across the sky over the U.S. East Coast appeared to be a "single meteor event," the U.S. space agency said. Residents from New York City to Washington and beyond lit up social ...
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2013
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A "supermoon" rises this weekend.
Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns this long-held assumption and paints a more ...
Astronomy
Sep 13, 2011
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When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Cocoa Beach realized that something was up.
Space Exploration
Jan 8, 2009
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(Phys.org)—When someone says "Once in a Blue Moon," you know what they mean: Rare, seldom, even absurd.
Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2012
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The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the two to three hours before dawn on Nov. 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2010
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