EarthSky News - Jan 10 - Seeking Alpha Centauri's Planets

January 10 Seeking Alpha Centauri's Planets by:

Seeking Alpha Centauri's unseen planets A new cooperative agreement  - announced Monday - will let ESO's Very Large Telescope seek planets in the star system next door. Hubble peers along Voyagers' future paths The Hubble Space Telescope is gazing along the future trajectories of the 2 Voyager spacecraft, now heading into uncharted interstellar space. NASA begins new astronaut sleep study A new NASA study is investigating how different light intensities and spectra can be used to help regulate astronauts' patterns of alertness and sleep. Astro festivals, star parties, workshops in 2017 There are some awesome winter star parties coming up, where amateur astronomers with telescopes will show you the night sky. Find one near you … Tonight … Identify stars in the Winter Circle Go outside, and look for the waxing gibbous moon tonight. Then notice the stars nearby. Tonight's moon is within the Winter Circle.

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Winter rainbow over Niagara Falls Tony Lee said temps were in the 20s (around -7 C) when he captured this shot. He wrote: "My fingertips are still back at the Falls!"

Tonight … Identify stars in the Winter Circle Go outside, and look for the waxing gibbous moon tonight, then notice the stars nearby.  Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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