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New Starry Time-Lapse: A Tribute to Sky-Watchers
It seems there’s no shortage of jaw-dropping astronomy time-lapse videos floating around the web, which highlight the gorgeous spangle of stars visible over lovely locales (for instance, in the high...
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National Geographic’s Top 10 Tweets of 2012
What did National Geographic Twitter followers retweet most in 2012? Intriguing transmissions on strange emissions—from the sun as well as wombats—subatomic science, and stargazing. Lots of stargazing....
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Weekend Sky Show: Moon Joins Stellar Gems
Skywatchers this weekend will get treated to some beautiful close encounters when the Moon glides past bright clusters of stars and planet Jupiter. Up first on Saturday, April 13, look towards the...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Return of Venus, Solar Eclipse
The crescent moon will be paying a visit with Jupiter and Venus this week. Illustration via Starry Night Software/Andrew Fazekas Here at National Geographic, we’ve discovered that readers love their...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Three-Planet Huddle, Lunar Wall
As the sun sets this week and the stars come out to play, the moon makes for a convenient guidepost in tracking down some cosmic showpieces. Check out our five sky events not to miss. Moon Joins...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Row of Planets, Summer Triangle
An artist’s concept of the asteroid belt filled with rocks and dusty debris orbiting between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Evening planets continue to dazzle all week...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Glimpsing a Green Giant, Big Dipper Rides High
The Big Dipper stellar pattern hangs on its side in the northwest in early June evenings. Credit: Starry Night Software / A.Fazekas Skywatchers this week get a chance to track down an elusive frozen...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Lord of the Rings Meets Luna, Solstice Supermoon
The beauty of the full moon rising, like this “super moon” near the Lincoln Memorial in March 2011, in Washington, D.C., is one of the most stunning sky shows not to be missed. Credit: NASA/Bill...
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Primetime Views of Saturn And an Upcoming Planetary Family Portrait
While skywatchers may not get the same clear view of Saturn like this Hubble image, small telescopes can easily reveal its majestic rings. Credit: NASA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)...
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4 Sky Events This Week: Summer Superstars, Milky Way Rising
The Great Hercules Cluster is one of the favorite deep sky targets for backyard stargazers using binoculars and telescopes. Credit: T. Bash, J. Fox, and A. Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF As the waning moon moves...
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4 Sky Events This Week: Cosmic Doughnut, Moon Meets Lion’s Heart
The Ring nebula in Lyra, imaged here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is one of the most famous deep-sky objects for backyard telescopes since it is conveniently located near the bright summer star Vega....
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7 Sky Events This Week: Luna Joins Lord of the Rings and the God of War
This week the Cassini orbiter will take a special back-lit shot of Saturn, like this one taken in 2006, but this time a tiny Earth will also pose alongside the ringed-planet. Credit:...
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4 Sky Events This Week: Eagle’s Eye and Meteors Sprinkle
The Summer Triangle stellar pattern is seen here in this long exposure photograph with the Milky Way band in the background. Along with Vega and Deneb, Altair is one of the brightest stars of this...
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6 Sky Events This Week: Moon Dances, Seven Sisters, Bull’s Eye
While robotic probes have snapped amazing close-up images of Jupiter, Mars and the moon , sky watchers will see this same trio form a striking triangle pattern in the morning sky this week. Credit:...
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Watch NASA’s Moon Launch Tonight From the East Coast
This image shows the Minotaur V rocket that will carry NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) on a pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va.Credit: NASA EDGE...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Saturn Poses With Moon, Comet Coming, Giant Lunar Wall
This Cassini image of Saturn taken in 2010 shows a monster storm in its northern atmosphere. Now a new study has revealed details about the tempest’s explosive power: its ability to churn up water ice...
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4 Sky Events This Week: Harvest Moon, Green Giant, and Fall Equinox
September’s full moon rises this week and is called the Harvest Moon, offering a great starter destination to learning the night sky. Credit: Andrew Fazekas This week two of the brightest planets join...
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6 Sky Events This Week: Dragon Spits Fire and Jupiter’s Moons Play Tag
Jupiter’s moon Io and its tiny shadow sweep across the giant planet’s face back in 1999, as snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope. This week, backyard telescope users get a chance to witness the...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Partial Lunar Eclipse, Halley’s Shooting Stars
This 1986 image of Halley’s comet was taken when it swung by Earth during its 76-year orbit. This week, bits of the famous comet will come falling into Earth’s atmosphere as shooting stars. Credit:...
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5 Sky Events This Week: Cosmic Bull’s-Eye and Eskimo Nebula
This composite image of the Eskimo nebula contains X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra observatory in pink showing the location of million-degree gas near the center of the planetary nebula. Data from the...
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