EarthSky News - Jan 29 - Top Stories This Week

January 29 Top Stories This Week by:

What's killing these galaxies? It's an astrophysical whodunnit. Across the universe, galaxies are being killed. Hole-punch clouds over SoCal They result from cold temps, air traffic, atmospheric instability. People mistake them for UFOs! Happy Chinese New Year! It rings in the Year of the Rooster. Gong Xi Fa Ca, y'all! Orion, from China's Great Wall Plus an explanation of the link between the constellation we know as Orion the Hunter and the Chinese New Year. When lava meets sea Watch what happens when lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano meets the ocean. What are the seasons like on Uranus? The planet's sideways tilt makes a huge difference between its winter-summer and autumn-spring. Tonight … Moon below Venus Beginning tonight, watch as the waxing crescent moon sweeps past Venus and then Mars on the sky's dome. You'll find them all in the west at nightfall.

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Tonight … Moon below Venus Beginning tonight, watch as the waxing crescent moon sweeps past Venus and then Mars on the sky's dome. You'll find them all in the west at nightfall.

New Earth images from GOES-16 GOES-16 composite color image of Earth from 1:07 p.m. EDT on January 15, 2017 and was created using several of the instrument's 16 spectral channels. The image shows North and South America and the surrounding oceans. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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