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On August 12, the New Moon’s shadow will fall over a portion of Earth’s surface. When that...
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Meterorite ALH 84001 fell to Earth from Mars about 13,000 years ago, landing in the Allan Hills...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 6: Mercury moves...
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Friday, August 7The Moon passes 5° north of Uranus at 1 P.M. EDT. The pair is visible...
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NASA launched its Mars rover Curiosity inside the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) on Nov. 26, 2011. Complete...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 5: Iapetus at...
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Neil Alden Armstrong was born on Aug. 5, 1930, in Ohio. A naval pilot from 1949 to...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 4: Asteroid Bamberga...
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The night sky is littered with galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters — if only we had eyes...
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In early August 1972, a series of flares and other solar-storm phenomena generated extreme space weather events...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 3: A solar...
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Is it possible for us to send a spaceship to Comet 3I/ATLAS to collect samples of its...
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David Fabricius was born in modern-day Germany in 1564. He became a Lutheran pastor, but maintained a...
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Damian Peach from Hampshire, U.K. Favorable libration briefly tilts the Moon’s southwestern limb into view in this...
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Visible in Scotland, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 2, 1133, featured nearly 4½ minutes of totality....
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 1: Open cluster...
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Born Aug. 1, 1818, Maria Mitchell was raised in the Quaker tradition, which allowed equal education for...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 31: Mercury brightening...