Jan 27 - Top Stories This Week

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January 31 lunar eclipse: What scientists can learn The lunar eclipse offers scientists a chance to see what happens when the surface of the moon cools quickly. Super Blue Moon eclipse coming up January 31 Everything you need to know. Jupiter's swirling south pole Juno spacecraft image. Substellar objects in Orion Nebula New deep survey revealed 17 brown dwarf companions to red dwarf stars, a brown dwarf pair, a brown dwarf with a planetary companion, plus ... 3 giant planets. Ingredients for life in space rocks that fell to Earth 1st meteorites found to contain both liquid water and a mix of complex organic compounds. 50 years ago: Thule incident The crash of a U.S. jet carrying 4 nuclear bombs spread radioactive wreckage across 3 square miles of a frozen fjord. Asteroid to fly safely past Earth February 4 At its closest, it will be 2.6 million miles (4.2 million km) away - about 10 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

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ISS over Idaho's Wood River Valley On Thursday night, Nils Ribi captured the path of the International Space Station (ISS) over the Wood River Valley of Idaho in 6 3-second exposures combined into one photo. He wrote, "The clear sky and a bright waxing gibbous moon at 65% full made for a nice show."

Star-hop from Orion to Planet 9 Astronomers are searching for a hypothetical Planet 9 in the starry sky. You can use the constellation Orion to show you approximately where they're looking. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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