EarthSky News - Apr 29 - Venus Brightest

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Help EarthSky keep going Please help us help you keep looking up. Donate today. Prefer PayPal or to send a check? Go here. It's the last week of our once-yearly fund-raiser. We need you. Venus at its brightest in morning sky We passed between Venus and the sun a month ago. Now the planet shines brilliantly, low in the east before dawn. Watch for a young moon this weekend The young moon is back in the west after sunset. Very lovely, and passing near some bright stars in the days ahead. Cassini dives between Saturn and its rings This spacecraft made the 1st-ever dive through the gap between Saturn's outer atmosphere and inner rings on Wednesday. How Kepler saw Neptune New video depicting the observations of our solar system's 8th planet, Neptune, by the planet-hunting Kepler telescope.

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Cassini dives between Saturn and its rings This unprocessed image shows features in Saturn's atmosphere from closer than ever before. The view was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its first Grand Finale dive past the planet on April 26, 2017.

Watch for a young moon this weekend Here's last night's moon from Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan in NYC. He wrote: "This is a 13-image composite of the waxing crescent moon setting behind the Empire State Building. The moon sequence is placed 2 minutes, 30 seconds apart." Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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