EarthSky News - Jan 22 - Top Stories This Week

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Hubble spies exocomets' plunge into star Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! Watch soap bubbles freeze Looks like time-lapse but it's actually in real time. EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2017 All you need to know about 2017's major meteor showers. Why stars seem brighter this time of year No matter where you are on Earth, you're looking toward bright stars in our local spiral arm. Dates of lunar and solar eclipses in 2017 Plus a preview of the great American total solar eclipse of 2017. 2016 hottest year on record … and the 3rd year in a row of record warming, continuing a decades-long warming trend. Tomorrow before dawn … Moon, Antares, Saturn Given clear skies, it should be easy to use the waning crescent moon to locate the star Antares and planet Saturn before dawn's first light on Monday morning.

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Tomorrow before dawn … Moon, Antares, Saturn For us in North America, they'll make a triangle on the sky's dome Monday morning. From around the world, these objects will be easy to spot, assuming your sky is clear.

Waning moon in sunrise colors Jüri Voit captured this photo Saturday morning - January 21, 2017 - in Kuusalu, Estonia. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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