EarthSky News - Sept 30 - Top Stories This Week

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Giant iceberg on the move There's a cool animation showing this iceberg's drift away from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf here. Fast radio bursts firing every second? New theoretical work indicates at least 1 fast radio burst, or FRB, going off somewhere each second. How fast is our universe expanding? New video about the controversial Hubble Constant - key to knowing the age of our universe and much more. Is the Milky Way a normal galaxy? Astronomers use knowledge of our Milky Way to understand the rest of the universe. But is the Milky Way typical? Did dino-killing asteroid speed bird evolution? Study suggests the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs increased the pace of evolution in their only remaining descendants - birds. Passing spacecraft snaps Earth pics The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft received a gravity boost from Earth on September 22, in the process creating this new Earth portrait. Why don't poison frogs poison themselves?    Scientists are a step closer to resolving this head-scratcher.  Moon's near side is its dark side Believe it or not, the moon's near side is its dark side, thanks to a collection of low-lying lunar plains, solidified remnants of ancient seas of molten magma.

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Autumn arrives in Colorado Hello autumn! Manish Mamtani captured this aerial view on September 24, 2017 - two days after the September equinox. Do you have a photo of autumn's arrival this year at your location? Or ... Southern Hemisphere spring? Submit your photo here.

Near side of the moon In terms of reflectivity, the moon's near side is its darker side, because of the dark low-lying plains, or maria, on this side. See if you can make out the dark areas on tonight's waxing gibbous moon. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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