EarthSky News - Feb 25 - Ring of Fire Eclipse on Sunday

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Ring of fire eclipse on Sunday The February 26, 2017 annular solar eclipse - aka a ring of fire eclipse - will be visible from parts of Earth's Southern Hemisphere. 20 years after Dolly Everything you always wanted to know about the Dolly the cloned sheep and what came next, from a biomedical researcher and cloning expert. Star brightness versus star luminosity Some extremely large and hot stars blaze away with the luminosity of a million suns! But other stars look bright only because they're near Earth. Star of the week: Procyon is the Little Dog Star The Dog Star, Sirius, is easy to spot because it's the sky's brightest star. Procyon - the other Dog Star - is near its brighter brother on the sky's dome.

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Last flight gone Hunter Davis wrote, "Winter is almost here at the South Pole. The last flight for the summer left last week. I'm just waiting for the sun to go down (which will happen around March 18) so I can photograph some stars!"

Ring of fire eclipse on Sunday The February 26, 2017 annular solar eclipse - aka a ring of fire eclipse - will be visible from parts of Earth's Southern Hemisphere. Photo by Geoff Sims (Used with permission.) Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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