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Live from the Moon: How Earth Saw the First Steps of Apollo 11 Jane Green, Sky & Telescope | July 12, 2019 Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's first steps on the Moon changed the world. But that the world would see them wasn't a given. I was only knee-high when I witnessed Neil Armstrong’s...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 15 July 2019 The Space Station Crosses a Spotless Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Rainee Colacurcio That's no sunspot. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught passing in front of the Sun. Sunspots, individually, have a dark central...

Chandrayaan 2 launch: How to watch India's historic moon landing attempt live Jackson Ryan, CNET | July 13, 2019 11:30 PM PDT India will launch three robotic explorers to the moon Sunday, aiming to become the first ever nation to make a soft landing at the south pole. After several delays...

Video: Moon hoax not Deborah Byrd in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | July 9, 2019 Don’t believe the moon landings were real? Go ahead. Watch this. In the video above, filmmaker SG Collins explains why the Apollo moon landings on the moon in the late 1960s and early ’70s couldn’t have been faked. He’s...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 12 July 2019 Magellanic Galaxy NGC 55 Image Credit & Copyright: Acquisition - Eric Benson, Processing - Dietmar Hager Irregular galaxy NGC 55 is thought to be similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). But while the LMC is about 180,000...

Uranus: The Ringed Planet That Sits on its Side Charles Q. Choi, Space | 11 July 2019 Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and the first to be discovered by scientists. Although Uranus is visible to the naked eye, it was long mistaken as a star because of the planet's dimness and slow...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 10 July 2019 4000 Exoplanets Video Credit: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida); Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive Over 4000 planets are now known to exist outside our Solar System. Known as exoplanets, this milestone was passed last month, as...

THREE ‘METEOR-LIKE’ UFOS REPORTED OVER TEXAS Roger Marsh, Mufon | 9 July 2019 Witness illustration. Credit: MUFON A Texas witness at San Antonio reported watching triangular-shaped object “falling like a feather” that were “burning white,” according to testimony in Case 96065 from the Mutual...

Hubble Views Lonely Dwarf Galaxy: NGC 1156 Sci News Staff | 8 July 2019 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1156, one of the best targets to study the isolated dwarf galaxies in the nearby Universe. This image snapped by the...

Awesome Sun Image EarthSky Voices in SPACE | 7 July 2019 An ultraviolet image of the sun, overlaid with a map of its magnetic field lines. Image via NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL ______________________________________________ It's amazing all the "stuff" that is going on right in our backyard...

More amazing images of the July 2 eclipse Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | TODAY'S IMAGE | July 4, 2019 Some called it the “astronomer’s eclipse” because it passed near major observatories in Chile. Check out these beautiful images of the July 2, 2019, total solar eclipse. Moon in...

UFOs: Where your state ranks for unexplained sightings Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY Published 12:01 a.m. ET July 2, 2019 | Updated 5:42 p.m. ET July 2, 2019 The truth is out there. Extraterrestrials are more likely to visit from the North. That’s one way, anyway, to interpret the results from...

New photo captures Eta Carinae’s fireworks show Hailey Rose Mclaughlin | Published: Wednesday, July 03, 2019 Hubble reveals a festive explosion and new information on the exploding star. NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of Arizona) and J. Morse (BoldlyGo Institute) As though in...

How to see Pluto in your sky Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | SPACE | July 3, 2019 Pluto’s opposition – marking the middle of the best time of year to see it – is coming up on July 14, 2019. Telescope users spot it by locating Pluto among the stars and watching nightly for the object that...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 2 July 2019 NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Leo Shatz If not perfect, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe containing billions of...

Today in science: Tunguska explosion Posted by EarthSky in EARTH | SPACE | June 30, 2019 We celebrate Asteroid Day on June 30 because it’s the anniversary of a 1908 explosion over Siberia that killed reindeer and flattened trees. Here’s the latest on what we know. A 1929 image of fallen...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 29 June 2019 M83: The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy Image Credit: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope, European Southern Observatory - Processing & Copyright: Robert Gendler Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 28 June 2019 A View Toward M106 Image Credit: Phil Keyser Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista. The nearly two degree wide telescopic field of view looks toward the well-trained constellation Canes Venatici...

A small asteroid hit us last weekend Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | June 26, 2019 Asteroid 2019 MO exploded in our atmosphere with an energy of about 3 to 5 kilotons of TNT. Such events happen once or twice yearly, astronomers say. Most are unexpected, but this space rock was detected hours before...