EarthSky News - Apr 23 - Top Stories This Week

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Asteroid 2014 JO25 bigger than expected The asteroid safely passed Earth on April 19 at some 1,098,733 miles (1,768,239 km) or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Photos of close asteroid 2014 JO25 Images from the EarthSky community here. Favorite photos for Earth Day 2017 A collection of lovely, gorgeous, and wonderful photos in celebration of our favorite planet. Cassini to begin Grand Finale Cassini - now nearly out of fuel - will make the 1st in a daring series of dives through the gap between Saturn and its rings next week on April 26. Earth and moon between Saturn's rings The Cassini spacecraft was 870 million miles (1.4 billion km) from Earth when it obtained this new image. Help EarthSky keep going We need your help to keep going. Please donate now. Prefer PayPal or to send a check? Go here. We're over halfway to our goal, help us close out strong! Tonight … Kochab and Pherkad in Little Dipper Kochab and Pherkad are the two outer stars in the bowl of the Little Dipper.

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Kochab and Pherkad in Little Dipper If you draw a line between these 2 stars, and extend it northward, you'll come to Polaris, the North Star.

Favorite photos for Earth Day 2017 Northern lights in Alaska by Manish Mamtani Photography, More photos here. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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