March 24 - Top Stories This Week

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Spacecraft sees Jupiter as never before Whoa. Massive cyclones at Jupiter's poles! 1st interstellar asteroid from double star New research about the sweep through our solar system of this mystery object. How can you know what to believe? A study links extreme winters with a warmer Arctic. Should you believe the study or the skeptics? Why do comets emit X-rays? Researchers fired laser beams onto a plastic foil to answer a long-standing question. Jupiter's Red Spot gets taller as it shrinks Taller, and more orange. Did Scholz's star invade the Oort Cloud? And did it dislodge comets? NOAA's 2018 US spring weather outlook It projects warmer-than-normal temperatures and moderate flooding. Mars is at western quadrature today It's a place in the mutual orbits of Earth and Mars. When Mars is at western quadrature in Earth's sky, Earth is at or near a greatest elongation - greatest distance from the sun on the sky's dome - as seen from Mars. See the chart below.

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Ghost tracks The Milky Way rising over the famous buried ghost tracks on the beach at Cape May, New Jersey, early on the morning of March 16. Photographer John Entwistle said, "The old railroad tracks, which were used in the early 1900s to transport goods, recently became exposed due to the nor'easter storms."

Mars at western quadrature March 24 On this chart, Mars is red, and Earth is blue. Earth will soon catch up to Mars in its smaller, faster orbit. By July, Mars will be closer and brighter than since 2003. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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