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The Sky This Week from March 28 to April 4: Greet the First Quarter Moon
Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...
A Star May Explode Next Week In Once-In-80-Years Event — What To Know
A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...
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5 Amazing Constellations and Why You Should Get to Know Them
Leo is directly beneath the Big Dipper, beyond the smaller Leo Minor constellation, and is host to Regulus (labeled "1" below), its primary star. Gemini's head stars, Castor and Pollux (labeled "2 ...
A star could explode this week in a rare event visible with the naked eye
In what’s being billed as a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, a star in the Corona Borealis constellation could explode ...
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You won’t want to miss these celestial events in April
In reality, two planets will be hanging out very close to the moon on April 25, but they won’t form a smiley face. Venus and ...
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The Winter Triangle meets the 'Mars Triangle' in the night sky this month
The orange-hued star Pollux (magnitude +1.15) and nearby white star Castor (magnitude +1.58 ... in the adjacent zodiacal constellation of Cancer the Crab; only a couple of degrees from the ...
Hubble sees a spiral and a star in the constellation Virgo
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...
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See the moon cozy up to a fading Mars tonight (March 8)
At this moment, it forms a conspicuous triangle with two nearby bright stars, Castor and Pollux, in the constellation Gemini. To echo H.A. Rey in his classic "The Stars — A New Way to See Them ...