This year, the night of Wolf Moon also produced a penumbral lunar eclipse. This type of eclipse is often mistaken for a normal full moon and occurs when the Moon moves through the weakest outer part of Earth’s shadow. When? January 10 February: snow moon The Snow Moon is named …
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This holiday weekend, heaven has a special gift in store, in addition to fireworks. The July “Buck” full moon will rise on the night of Independence Day, and will be accompanied by a penumbral eclipse. However, the lunar event on July 4 will be quite subtle, as penumbral eclipses are …
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The remains of a gas giant were seen orbiting a nearby star, astronomers reveal. The planet’s core is all that remains, but researchers think it was once a massive gaseous planet. What lies deep within the giant gas planets has long been a mystery to astronomers. Giant gas planets like …
Read More »Artist’s impression of the missing star. Image: THAT An unusually bright star in a nearby galaxy has disappeared, in a mystery of cosmic proportions. An object inside the dwarf galaxy Kinman has disappeared from view, according to new investigation published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This …
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ANDYou’d think if you found the first evidence that a planet larger than Earth lurked unseen in the far reaches of our solar system, it would be a great time. It would make you one of the few people in all of history who has discovered such a thing. But …
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