EarthSky News - Nov 6 - Top Stories This Week

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November guide to the bright planets Early this month, the moon sweeps past Venus and Saturn, then passes Mars. Curiosity finds small meteorite on Mars Not the first meteorite found by a rover on Mars, and won't be the last. Asteroid, discovered November 1, swept past Just hours after its discovery, asteroid 2016 VA passed within 0.2 times the moon's distance from Earth. Spacecraft catches partial solar eclipse Take a few seconds and check it out. What's that UFO-looking cloud? Sometimes reported as UFOs, hole-punch cloud are made by jets. Here are 3 amazing spider skills Amazing feats of spiders you might not know about. Mount Hekla was called Gateway to Hell Is Iceland's 3rd most active volcano overdue for another eruption?

ToNIGHT Tonight … Peer out our galaxy's south window Visualize looking from our Milky Way galaxy's flat star-rich disk, into intergalactic space.

Today's Image Spot the ISS in your sky Wayne Boyd caught the International Space Station passing over Marstons Mills, Massachusetts on November 4. A new map-based feature in NASA's Spot the Station program makes it even easier to track the ISS in your night sky. More here.

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