It is not only the fireworks that mark the beginning of the new year, but also the meteor shower. This weekend, keep an eye out for quarters, which – for those who dare to chill out during the late night hours and want to fight sleep – are known to …
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Between once in a lifetime Comet And epic Jupiter and Saturn meeting For the Great Connection, 2020 was a big year for celestial phenomena. But 2021, the quarter is getting off to a strong start with the peak of meteor showers, which NASA calls this week, Saturday, January 2 to …
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When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it will not be a giant saucer spinning over New York. Presumably, it will be a waste of alien culture. Avi Loeb, chairman of the Harvard division of astronomy, believes he has already found some of that debris. …
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Britain will launch a robotic ‘Space Spider’ to the moon in 2021, the first time a walking King Rover has been sent to explore the distant world. This small probe, developed by London-based robotics experts SpaceBit – is set to go to the lunar surface with summer in the next …
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Look bigger. | In 2014, when the quarter was flying, many people at northern latitudes were watching the auroras. Photo by Tommy Eliasen. The quadrangular meteor shower is the first major meteor shower of 2021. Unfortunately, a bright weak gibbous moon will illuminate the sky at the expected peak night …
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