Feb 15 - Happy Year of the Dog

February 15 Happy Year of the Dog by:

Chinese New Year on February 15-16 The 2018 Chinese New Year - which coincides with the February new moon - starts February 16 in Asia (February 15 in the west) and rings in the Year of the Dog. New moon is today The February 15 new moon at 21:05 UTC comes almost directly between the Earth and sun. Today ... 5-year anniversary of asteroid explosion over Russia The meteor it created was brighter than the sun. It exploded in the air over the city of Chelyabinsk. Today ... Solar eclipse, southern Earth This partial eclipse is visible from southern South America (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, far-southern Brazil and far-southern Paraguay), Antarctica, and the far-southern extremities of the South Pacific and South Atlantic. Today … Happy birthday Galileo! Happy 454th birthday to one of the first modern scientists, Galileo. With the aid of an early telescope, he helped remove Earth from the center of the universe.

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Partial solar eclipse for southern Earth today Map showing varying degrees of eclipse obscuration via Fernado de Gorocica.

New moon is today Old moon Tuesday morning, heading for a solar eclipse. David Rojas in Guatemala City, Guatemala wrote: "Waning crescent moon, illuminated at approximately 1.84%, says goodbye early this morning minutes before dawn." After this, the moon will shift over into the evening sky, to sweep past the returning planet Venus. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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