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Friday, June 5Standing some 50° high in the south by 10 P.M. local daylight time, M5 is...
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Marco Wong, taken from Sussex, U.K. The Milky Way’s bright star fields and dense dust lanes arch...
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One of the earliest recorded eclipses is found in the Shijing, a collection of ancient poetry whose compilation is...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 3: Juno stands...
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The brainchild of George Ellery Hale, the 200-inch Hale Telescope was dedicated June 3, 1948, at Palomar...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 2: Titan stands...
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New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life...
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📷: Greg Meyer from Phoenix, Arizona The Antenna Galaxies (NGC 4038/9; at left) in Corvus are one...
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About 63 hours after its launch, Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966. The...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 1: Mercury at...
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Blue Moons are known for the folklore surrounding their appearance in the skies. But the real thing...
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What’s launching this week Early this morning, Monday, June 1, the state owned China Aerospace Science and...
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Occasionally I see references in Astronomy to the speed of something as “supersonic.” I’m having trouble reconciling...
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In the 1870s, real-estate mogul James Lick established a trust of $700,000 (around $1.2 billion today) for...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 31: Blue Moon,...
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Mercury reaches greatest elongation in the evening sky this month. Venus and Jupiter have a spectacular conjunction,...
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June evenings offer a great chance to view three bright planets. Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury gather in...
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In the 1960s, two organizations were formed for cooperation around a European presence in space: the European...
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. May 30: Fly a...
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Harry Clement Stubbs – perhaps better known by his penname, Hal Clement – was born near Boston...