Feb 20 - Humanity Star

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Will you see the Humanity Star? The debate surrounding the Humanity Star. Is it possible to see? Can you see it from your location? How to try to see it, if it's visible, here. Tonight … Peek at the moon's far side The far side of the moon stays hidden from Earth, mostly. But lunar libration brings a bit of the moon's far side into view tonight. Green moon on April 20, 2018? Nah It's strange what people will believe, isn't it? ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole's spinning disk For decades, astronomers have been talking about of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores. Now they say they've clearly confirmed a black hole's encircling, dusty, spinning disk of gas.

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Peek at the moon's far side View larger. | The yellow lines define the near side of the moon, and the space between the yellow and green lines outline the far side of the moon that's visible from Earth, given favorable lunar librations, like the one tonight.

New Year greeting from Canis Major Sirius, the sky's brightest star, is sometimes called the Dog Star because it's in the constellation Canis Major, the Greater Dog. In this Chinese Year of the Dog ... a photo from Hong Kong by Matthew Chin. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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