EarthSky News - Sept 23 - Biblical Signs in Tonight's Sky?

September 23 Biblical Signs in Tonight's Sky? by:

Biblical signs in the sky? Will tonight's sky mirror "signs" from the Bible's Book of Revelation? Possibly. But this same sky scene has been seen multiple times in the past 1,000 years. An astronomer explains. Star of the week: Fomalhaut How to see the star Fomalhaut in your sky and a word about Fomalhaut b, the first planet beyond our solar system visible to the eye in photographic images.  How well can seeds survive in space? If humans want to live on Mars, we're going to need to grow food.  Tonight … Use Big Dipper to find North Star The 2 outermost stars in the Dipper's bowl point to Polaris.

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Tonight … Use Big Dipper to find North Star Dubhe and Merak in the Big Dipper are sometimes called The Pointers.

Young moon and Jupiter Wow! So many beautiful photos of something relatively hard to catch … the young moon returning to the evening sky this week, sweeping next to bright Jupiter. Jupiter is deep in evening twilight now ... soon to disappear. Can you see the planet, below and to the right of the moon, in this photo taken last night by Giuseppe Pappa? He caught them over Mt. Etna, an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. View larger, more photos. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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