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NASA Selects Asteroid Mission Concept
In a step forward for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission, the agency has opted to retrieve a boulder from a larger asteroid.
MAVEN Spots Dust Cloud, Aurora on Mars
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has detected dust high in Mars’s atmosphere and auroras across the planet’s northern hemisphere.
OBSERVING HIGHLIGHTS
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 27 – April 4
Observe International Earth Hour this Saturday by turning off your lights at 8:30 p.m. local time, then heading outside to see the waxing gibbous Moon and Jupiter amidst the evening stars. And on Friday, a barely-there total lunar eclipse awaits.
The brightest nova since 2013 peaked and dimmed, but now its behavior is unsettled. It’s an easy catch in binoculars before dawn, a bit higher every morning.
Mizar – A Fresh Look at an Old Friend
You might be tempted to pass up this familiar star for more exotic quarry, but take another look at a multiple star with a most interesting history.
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Reports from March 20th’s Solar Eclipse
With risky prospects on far-northern islands and at a premium aboard aircraft, observers looked on with awe as the Moon’s shadow swept across the Arctic Ocean.
BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 