Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night
Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one.
Space Exploration
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Total lunar eclipse on Jan 20-21 will be last until 2022
People in North and South America, a large part of Europe and Africa may get a glimpse of a total lunar eclipse overnight from January 20 to 21, the last such event until 2022.
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2019
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Five things to know about January's total lunar eclipse
This month's rare total eclipse will be the last one visible from the United States until 2022.
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2019
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MuSCAT2 to find Earth-like planets in the TESS era
A Japan-Spain team has developed a powerful 4-color simultaneous camera named MuSCAT2 for the 1.52-m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez at the Teide Observatory, Canaries, Spain. The instrument aims to find a large number of transiting ...
Astronomy
Dec 18, 2018
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Astronomers confirm extended atmosphere on accretion disk of X-ray binary
Astronomers use stellar eclipses to study the atmosphere of accretion disks around compact stars. SRON-researchers observed this method on a low-mass X-ray binary. They find a thicker atmosphere than predicted and distinguish ...
Astronomy
Dec 12, 2018
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How birds and insects reacted to the solar eclipse
A team of researchers with Cornell University and the University of Oxford has found that birds and insects reacted in some surprising ways to the 2017 U.S. total solar eclipse. In their paper published in the journal Biology ...
NASA team to fly first-ever coronagraph to determine the formation of the solar wind
An observational technique first proposed more than four decades ago to measure the physical parameters of the corona that determine the formation of the solar wind—the source of disturbances in Earth's upper atmosphere—will ...
Space Exploration
Nov 6, 2018
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Astronomy student searches for giant rings with pictures from 1890
Meticulous analysis of hundreds of photographic plates from the star J1407 between 1890 and 2007 show no stellar eclipses. Robin Mentel, a Master's student at Leiden University, could not detect eclipses of the star J1407 ...
Astronomy
Oct 15, 2018
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A break from the buzz—bees go silent during total solar eclipse
While millions of Americans took a break from their daily routines on August 21, 2017, to witness a total solar eclipse, they might not have noticed a similar phenomenon happening nearby: In the path of totality, bees took ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 10, 2018
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Faulty sunglasses and fake news—how a solar eclipse shut down Serbia
Fake news about the dangers to Serbians from being outside during the 1999 solar eclipse resulted in the government advising the country to stay indoors, according to new research.
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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