EarthSky News - Jan 15 - Top Stories This Week

January 15 Top Stories This Week by:

Mars spacecraft spies Earth and moon A telescope orbiting Mars gives us a new view of Earth and its moon. Hubble peers along Voyagers' future paths Hubble looks at future trajectories of the 2 Voyager spacecraft, now heading into uncharted interstellar space. Weak La Niña follows potent El Niño After one of the most intense El Niños on record, the current La Niña has been relatively quiet. Seeking Alpha Centauri's unseen planets A new agreement will let ESO's Very Large Telescope seek planets in the star system next door. Huge iceberg set to break off Antarctic shelf Only about 12 miles (19 km) still connect the ice chunk to the rest of the continent. Moon in 2017 Everything you want to know about the moon in 2017 - phases, cycles, eclipses and supermoons. Tonight … Sirius, future South Pole Star The sky's brightest star, Sirius aka the Dog Star, will come to within 1.6 degrees of the south celestial pole in the year 66270.

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Sirius, future South Pole Star You can be sure you've found Sirius if you also look for the constellation Orion. The three stars of Orion's Belt always point to Sirius.

Moon now in a waning gibbous phase It's rising later and later each evening. Here's the waning gibbous moonrise behind the Empire State Building in New York City Friday evening. This is a composite of 10 images, spaced 4 minutes apart by Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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