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May observatory open house on asteroid sample analysis
Estes Park Trail Gazette· 1 day agoNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission: Early Results from Asteroid Sample Analysis is the subject of this month’s Estes Valley Astronomical Society (EVAS) meeting. EVAS...Memorial Observatory ...
A comet approaching Earth could become brighter than the stars this fall
Space via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoBy the end of this summer, we may have a good idea as to whether we'll have a bright naked-eye comet...
The Sky This Week from May 17 to 24: The Moon visits Antares
Astronomy Magazine· 5 days agoThe Moon occults two bright stars along the ecliptic as we also enjoy comets, asteroids, and star...
World’s largest camera, costly, fragile and built in Menlo Park, makes epic journey to South...
San Jose Mercury News· 2 hours agoThe world’s biggest camera was on its way from its birthplace at SLAC National Accelerator...
'Breathtaking': A mysterious fireball dazzled Pacific Northwest onlookers Monday night
The Spokesman-Review· 16 hours agoIs there a meteor shower tonight? Lingering, the streak was evidence of the immense distance it traversed across the Spokane skyline in a matter of seconds. An American Meteor Society database compiles such reports of fireball observations.
Watch a Blue-Green Comet Illuminate Skies Over Spain and Portugal
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoLate on Saturday night, a cosmic projectile turned the skies over Spain and Portugal a magnificent...
Scientists find Earth-sized planet. It's orbiting a fascinating star.
Mashable· 1 day agoThe exoplanet, which receives much more solar radiation than Earth and is unlikely to harbor liquid...
Why we're one step closer to understanding how Earth got its oceans (op-ed)
SPACE.com· 4 days agoSpace enthusiasts will know — it's easy to get caught up in a wealth of fascinating developments, from missions to the lunar surface to new discoveries in exoplanet science. With little fanfare ...
New 400,000-Pixel Superconducting Camera Offers Unprecedented View of the Cosmos
SciTechDaily· 21 hours agoHistorically, superconducting cameras, while meeting these low-noise and high-sensitivity...
New evidence for Planet 9 at the fringes of our solar system
EarthSky· 3 days agoThe case is growing that a Neptune-sized planet – Planet 9 – hides deep in the outskirts of our...