Of all nocturnal animals, only dung beetles can hold their course using polarized moonlight. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that beetles can use polarized light when its signal strength is weak, which ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2019
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Something strange is about to happen to the shadows beneath your feet.
Space Exploration
May 16, 2012
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More than half the solar system's planets will align Monday in a rarely seen spectacle, arcing across a corner of the night sky.
Astronomy
Mar 23, 2023
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Sometimes, the universe seems bent on hiding the most glorious of events right in plain sight. Just a such an event occurs next week, when the slender waning crescent moon occults the planet Venus for observers across Europe, ...
Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2016
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So did this past weekend's shift back to Standard Time for most of North America throw you for a loop? Coming the day after Halloween, 2015 was the earliest we can now shift back off Daylight Saving Time. Sunday won't fall ...
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2015
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A recent celestial event provided a fascinating look at a long-standing astronomical mystery.
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2015
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Be careful, this sort of thing can cause an accident. On Friday evening, Feb. 27th, the 10% crescent Moon will glide by Venus, forming a gorgeous and mesmerizing pair of lights in the sunset sky.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2009
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Welcome to Saturn as you've probably never seen it. It's always awe-inspiring to see the clockwork motion of the heavens transpire in real time. In a slow motion universe, occultations give us the chance to see the cosmos ...
Space Exploration
Apr 4, 2019
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So are you catching sight of the waxing crescent moon returning this week to the early PM sky? The start of lunation 1157 gives folks observing Ramadan here in Morocco a reason to celebrate, as it marks the end of dawn-to-dusk ...
Space Exploration
Jul 7, 2016
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One of the surest signs that late summer is here in the northern hemisphere is the arrival of the Milky Way in the early evening sky. As darkness falls ever earlier each night, the star-dappled plane of our home galaxy sits ...
Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2015
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