EarthSky News - May 24 - Top 10 New Species

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Top 10 new species 2017 This year's list includes a spider and an ant with names drawn from popular books, a pink katydid and an omnivorous rat. Mystery light shines near Cygnus A core When astronomers aimed the Very Large Array at the well-studied galaxy Cygnus A, they were surprised to find a bright new object near the galaxy's core. Supernova explosion, or a second supermassive black hole? Tonight … Deneb, tail of Cygnus the Swan Deneb marks the Tail of Cynus the Swan ... and the head of a crosslike pattern known as the Northern Cross. Star of the week: Polaris is the North Star The entire northern sky wheels around Polaris. But it's not the brightest star in the sky. In fact, Polaris ranks only 50th in brightness. May 25 new moon is a supermoon It's not just any supermoon, but the closest and largest supermoon of 2017. The young moon that follows this new moon will mark the beginning of Ramadan.

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Tonight … Deneb, tail of Cygnus the Swan Deneb is one of the most distant stars we can see with the eye alone, well over 1,000 light-years away.

Cape Cod Milky Way Manish Mamtani captured this image at Salt Pond on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. "Happy to be back chasing the Milky Way," he said. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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