EarthSky News - Dec 4 - Top Stories This Week

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See it!  Moon sweeps past Venus    The moon passed Venus this weekend, and there's more to come. Wonderful photos here! Thanks to all who submitted. Tonight … Moon and Mars closest Use the moon to find Mars this evening. Bright Venus is nearby. December guide to the bright planets Mercury, Venus and Mars at nightfall. Jupiter reigns as the sole morning planet. First images from ExoMars mission It was meant to be a test, but the images are spectacular. 2016-17 winter outlook for US NOAA's outlook calls for warmer drier South, cooler wetter North. What would Earth be like with no moon? Earth without its moon would be a very different world indeed. Night-shining clouds over Antarctica Spacecraft's view of noctilucent clouds above Earth's southernmost continent. The circadian rhythm of our microbes Our gut microbes have their own circadian rhythm. What's the hottest Earth has ever been? Earth's hottest periods occurred before humans existed.

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Tonight ... Moon and Mars closest Over the coming month, watch day by day, as the gap on our sky's dome between Mars and Venus shrinks. Mars and Venus will be close together in the evening sky in late January and early February 2017.

See it!  Moon sweeps past Venus    Peter Lowenstein in Mutare, Zimbabwe wrote on December 3: "Venus and the moon were flanked by broad sunset crepuscular ray, which rose almost to the same level." More photos here. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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