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What's the weather like on Proxima b?
http://bit.ly/2pQGXJn
The nearest known exoplanet - orbiting the star Proxima Centauri - is only 4.2 light-years away.
Does it have liquid water? An atmosphere? Weather? Scientists just announced the first tentative steps to explore those possibilities.
http://bit.ly/2pQGXJn
The nearest known exoplanet - orbiting the star Proxima Centauri - is only 4.2 light-years away.
Does it have liquid water? An atmosphere? Weather? Scientists just announced the first tentative steps to explore those possibilities.
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Where's the moon? Waning gibbous
http://bit.ly/2qIUh7r
Watch for it late at night now, or before dawn.
Last quarter moon will come on May 18 or 19, depending on your time zone.
Photo taken May 14 by Deirdre Horan of Dublin
http://bit.ly/2qIUh7r
Watch for it late at night now, or before dawn.
Last quarter moon will come on May 18 or 19, depending on your time zone.
Photo taken May 14 by Deirdre Horan of Dublin
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Lake Baikal is Earth's deepest, oldest lake
http://bit.ly/2rimJtX
It's located near the Russian city of Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia with about half a million population.
Controversy surrounds construction of hydropower stations on a river that feeds the lake ...
Photo by Alexey Trofimov, photographer, traveler, photoguide on Baikal, Russian Geographical Society.
http://bit.ly/2rimJtX
It's located near the Russian city of Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia with about half a million population.
Controversy surrounds construction of hydropower stations on a river that feeds the lake ...
Photo by Alexey Trofimov, photographer, traveler, photoguide on Baikal, Russian Geographical Society.
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This scientist has discovered the oldest signs of life on land yet ...
http://bit.ly/2rifRN5
The fossils are found in Australia - in ancient hot spring deposits - and have pushed back the earliest known evidence for land-based microbial life to 3.48 billion years.
Plus the work has implications for where life on Earth originated … land or ocean.
http://bit.ly/2rifRN5
The fossils are found in Australia - in ancient hot spring deposits - and have pushed back the earliest known evidence for land-based microbial life to 3.48 billion years.
Plus the work has implications for where life on Earth originated … land or ocean.
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A possible bright supernova in the galaxy NGC 6946!
Image and story by Virtual Telescope Project:
http://bit.ly/2rf2c9x
Image and story by Virtual Telescope Project:
http://bit.ly/2rf2c9x
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Tonight … Bright star Vega http://bit.ly/2qBd8RQ
Bright, bluish Vega marks the constellation Lyra the Harp.
Bright, bluish Vega marks the constellation Lyra the Harp.
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The Big Dipper's deep sky http://bit.ly/2qBfyjw
Many people recognize the Big Dipper in the northern sky. Here are 10 deep-sky Messier objects - 8 galaxies, a planetary nebula, and a double star - in and around the Big Dipper. All photos by Kurt Zeppetello in Monroe, Connecticut.
Many people recognize the Big Dipper in the northern sky. Here are 10 deep-sky Messier objects - 8 galaxies, a planetary nebula, and a double star - in and around the Big Dipper. All photos by Kurt Zeppetello in Monroe, Connecticut.
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On May evenings, disk of the Milky Way lies flat, nearly parallel to plane of your horizon. http://bit.ly/2raWrd2 Photo: Larry Landolfi
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Star of the week: Arcturus http://bit.ly/2qAYQRs
Arcturus, a red giant, is the brightest star on the northern half of Earth's sky dome.
Arcturus, a red giant, is the brightest star on the northern half of Earth's sky dome.
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