Saturday, March 10, 2018

March 10 - Top Stories This Week

March 10
Top Stories This Week
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A signal from the 1st stars 
It's potentially one of the most exciting astronomical discoveries of the decade.
Send your name to the sun
How to send your name to the sun with NASA's Parker Solar Probe launching this summer.

Update on S2, the star plunging past the Milky Way's black hole

It's an "all-clear" for an exciting test of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity!
Scientists discover supercolony of 1.5 million penguins
The Adélie penguins on the Danger Islands went undetected for decades.
China's Tiangong-1 due for uncontrolled re-entry, soon 
The current estimated window for the Tiangong-1 space station's re-entry is about March 29 to April 9.
Views of home 
Perspectives of our home planet from spacecraft cameras looking back at Earth.
See the early morning Milky Way 
Photos from EarthSky community members who ventured into the cold and darkness before dawn in February.
Melting permafrost might unleash carbon within decades  
Study says northern Arctic permafrost will thaw enough to become a permanent source of atmospheric carbon this century.

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Don't miss moon, Mars, Saturn before dawn
It'll be a very narrow crescent moon that you'll find near Saturn Sunday morning. And Pluto? It's up there, but vastly too faint to see with the eye.

Don't miss Venus and Mercury after sunset

Gilbert Vancell, a nature photographer on the island of Malta, caught Venus and Mercury this week. Mercury is higher in the sky; Venus is brighter. See more photos.

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