EarthSky News - Apr 24 - What a Great Weekend for Photos

April 24 What a Great Weekend for Photos ...  Moon, Venus, Meteors, More by:

See it! Meteors, moon, Venus photos The Lyrid meteor shower didn't produced as many meteors as hoped, but we got some lovely photos. The moon and Venus were awesome Sunday morning! Where's the moon now? Waning crescent Did you see it Monday morning? Check out this photo. April 26 new moon is a supermoon New moon will be Wednesday (April 26 at 12:16 UTC). It'll be 2017's first supermoon, that is, a moon particularly close to Earth. Expect larger than usual tides to follow Wednesday's new moon. How our Milky Way looks from space Another cool photo! Composite of 2 spiral galaxies, in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 27th birthday today. Tonight … Star-hop to Coma star cluster Cluster stars were born together from a single cloud in space. Help EarthSky keep going Final 12 days. Please donate now. Prefer PayPal or to send a check? Go here. Help us meet our goal!

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See it! Meteors, moon, Venus photos Shooting from northern Chile, Yuri Beletsky Nightscapes created this composite image showing both Lyrid meteors and the moon and Venus Saturday morning, April 22.

How our Milky Way looks from space? This composite shows 2 spiral galaxies - edge-on NGC 4302 and face-on NGC 4298 - in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 27th birthday today.  Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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