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The only total solar eclipse of 2021 will cross Antarctica early Saturday. Here are its stages explained. On Saturday, Dec. 4, a total eclipse of the sun will take place, the first since Dec. 14 of last year, when the moon's dark umbral shadow darkened portions of the South Pacific, Patagonia (south Chile and Argentina) and the South Atlantic.
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The only total solar eclipse of 2021 creates dazzling sight over Antarctica The space agency broadcast live views of the eclipse as seen by scientists Theo Boris and Christian Lockwood of the JM Pasachoff Antarctic Expedition from their observing point in Union Glacier, Antarctica. Since solar ...
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SpaceX starts building Starship launch pad in Florida SpaceX is gearing up to start launching its massive Starship Mars rocket from Florida. The company has started building a pad for Starship at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk ...
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Atlas V rocket launching mission for US Space Force Sunday morning: Watch it live CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch an Atlas V rocket into space early Sunday morning (Dec. 5), and you can watch the action live online. The two-stage rocket is scheduled to blast off from Space Launch Complex 41 here at ...
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What time is the total solar eclipse on Dec. 4? That's because the prime location for the total phase is in Antarctica, although there may be a livestream available. The partial phase starts at 2 a.m. EST (0700 GMT), the nearly two-minute totality ...
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Space station dodges space debris from decades-old Pegasus rocket The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory. On Friday (Dec. 3) at around 3 a.m. EST (0800 GMT), a Russian cargo ship ...
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Metal Planet Orbits Its Star Every 7.7 Hours Astronomers engaged in the sport of hunting exoplanets, or planets around other star systems have spotted a tiny world designated GJ 367 b with about half the mass of the Earth. Among the lightest exoplanets found to date, GJ 367 b zips around its ...
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A new exoplanet: Meet GJ 367b, an iron planet smaller and denser than Earth We now believe that most of the stars in the night sky are also orbited by their own planets. Astronomers have already found more than a thousand gas-giant planets—large, gaseous bodies similar in size to Jupiter. The focus now is on looking for rocky, ...
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Astronomers discover hot, dense planet with eight-hour year In a new study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that the planet, which is 31 light years from Earth, is one of the lightest among the nearly 5,000 exoplanets (planets outside our own solar system) that are known today, with half ...
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The Sky This Week: The Moon gets busy Our satellite sets off a total solar eclipse and passes by several planets from December 3 to 10. By Alison Klesman | Published: Friday, December 3, 2021. RELATED TOPICS: OBSERVING.
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