EarthSky News - Aug 2 - Saturn Tonight, Safe Eclipse Viewing, Sun Rotation, Nearest Exoplanet

August 2 Saturn Tonight, Safe Eclipse Glasses,  Sun Rotation, Nearest Exoplanet by:

Tonight … Identify Saturn near moon Use the moon to locate the ringed planet Saturn as darkness falls.  How to know your eclipse glasses are safe Unscrupulous companies are printing ISO certification labels on fake eclipse glasses. How to know what's safe. If you purchased glasses from EarthSky, yes, they are from a reputable vendor, Rainbow Symphony. Sun's core rotates 4x faster than surface Eureka! After decades of puzzling about whether the sun's core spins faster than its surface, astronomers can now measure it. No Earth-like atmosphere for Proxima b It's the nearest exoplanet and in its star's habitable zone. But a new study suggests radiation from its star would drain an Earth-like atmosphere 10,000 times faster than on Earth.

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Tonight … Identify Saturn near moon Miss 'em tonight? Try again tomorrow night.

Anticrepuscular rays with rainbow These 2 sky phenomena can appear separately. In this case, they appear together, both originating from the same source, the sun, on the opposite side of the sky. There are actually 2 rainbows here. See the faint one above the primary bow? Photo by Janice Reynolds. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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