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August's Full Sturgeon Moon rises tomorrow, 1st of 2 supermoons this month The full moon on Aug. 1 is the second of four supermoons in the summer of 2023, with the next, the Full Blue Moon, falling on Aug. 30. An orange full moon rises behind a thin cloud, against a dark blue sky,. From New York City, the Sturgeon supermoon ...
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Crew Dragon, Soyuz missions set for launches to ISS WASHINGTON — Two crewed missions remain on track to launch to the International Space Station over the next month and a half after addressing technical issues that included a Soyuz coolant leak. At a July 25 briefing, NASA officials said they are ...
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Rippling Waves of Plasma May Cause Massive Stars to 'Twinkle' When you look up into the night sky at a big, bright star, the familiar "twinkling" you see comes from the star's light wriggling its way through Earth's turbulent atmosphere. But if you could leap into hyperspace and visit that star directly, ...
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'Blight' warns that a future pandemic could start with a fungus Blight Emily Monosson W.W. Norton & Co., $28.95. In the summer of 1904, American chestnut trees in the Bronx were in trouble. Leaves, normally slender and brilliantly green, were curling at the edges and turning yellow. Some tree limbs and trunks ...
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When to see August's supermoons and rare blue moon August's first full moon, also known as the "Sturgeon Moon," will shine brightly in the sky on Tuesday night. It will appear brighter and bigger than the average full moon. The Aug. 1 full moon is the second of four consecutive supermoons, ...
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Get ready to catch a double supermoon feature this August. Here's when to look "Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August," said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
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Grab a telescope and a beach chair: Shenandoah Night Sky Festival to feature Perseid meteor shower "This year we're really expecting a big turnout because the Perseid meteor shower will be occurring during the Night Sky Festival. The moon will be out of the way," said Greg Redfern, WTOP's space contributor and NASA solar system ambassador.
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Space News: Hubble sees evaporating planet getting the hiccups A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit. It is so close to its parent star that it experiences a consistent, torrential blast of energy, which evaporates its hydrogen atmosphere ...
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Webb telescope marks one year in space. We ask a local expert why it's so impressive. ADRIAN — It's been in space for about a year now, and the James Webb Space Telescope continues to send dazzling photos of the cosmos back to Earth, helping scientists learn more about the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is special ...
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Remarkable fossil shows dinosaur, mammal forever frozen in epic battle The 125 million-year-old fossil was discovered in the Lujiatun Member of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian formation in China back in 2012 and shows the small mammal Repenomamus robustus engaged in an epic battle with the dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis.
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