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The Sky This Week from January 18 to January 27

Friday, January 18th 2019 03:36 PM

Friday, January 18For those who recently caught the observing bug, the so-called Summer Triangle must seem like a huge misnomer. That’s because this asterism remains on view after darkness falls in January. Look for Vega, the fifth-brightest star in the sky and the brightest triangle member, low in the northwest. Deneb lies above Vega and about one-third of the way to the zenith. Deneb mar...

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Plants have been grown on the Moon!

Wednesday, January 16th 2019 02:54 PM

Lunar plants There’s life on the Moon! Plant life, that is. Cotton seeds have reportedly just sprouted in an experiment aboard China’s Chang’e 4 Moon lander. The mission became the first to touch down on the surface of the far side of the Moon earlier this month. The spacecraft carried with it a number of instruments designed to study the lunar surface and geology of the V...

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Tonight, asteroid Eros will make its closest approach to Earth until 2056

Tuesday, January 15th 2019 03:12 PM

Near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros makes its closest approach to Earth since 2012 today, when it comes within 19.4 million miles (31.2 million kilometers) of our planet.  Throughout the week, asteroid Eros glows at 9th magnitude, making it bright enough to glimpse through small telescopes. The elongated asteroid has an average diameter of just over 10.5 miles (17 km), making it about 1/50t...

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Could extraterrestrial sugar help explain how life began on Earth?

Friday, December 21st 2018 07:26 PM

Extraterrestrial Sugar Scientists have discovered derivatives of life’s building blocks in carbon-rich meteorite samples, a first. They also showed how biological compounds can form in interstellar space. These new findings support the theory that life on Earth originated with help from cosmic impacts. Sugars and sugar derivatives are essential to life on Earth. But they, al...

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Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic will take people to space before Christmas

Friday, November 30th 2018 10:36 PM

Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic is on the verge of a major achievement: It will send astronauts into space by Christmas. The billionaire entrepreneur told CNN Business' Rachel Crane this week he is "pretty confident" his space tourism venture can achieve its milestone by the end of the year. "We have a brilliant group of astronauts who literally believe 100% in the project, an...

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Astronomers spot one of the oldest stars in the entire universe

Friday, November 9th 2018 01:39 AM

  One of the oldest stars in the universe is quietly hiding out in the Milky Way some 2,000 light-years from Earth.  According to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, the tiny, 13.5-billion-year-old red dwarf contains barely any heavy elements at all, suggesting it formed out of a nearly pristine cloud of material leftover from shortly after the Big Bang. Fur...

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