Apr 21 - Lyrids, Spring Snows, Top Stories

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Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight You might catch 10 to 20 meteors per hour. The peak is probably Sunday morning. Latest snow on record for thousands of US locations What's the latest date that measurable snow has fallen in different parts of the United States? Check this interactive map from NOAA to find your record latest snow. Was another civilization on Earth before humans? How do we know earlier industrial civilizations on Earth didn't rise and fall long before humans appeared? Theorists describe black hole megamergers Video shows a simulation of the dynamics of 50 black holes in the center of a globular star cluster. What is an exoplanet? Ours is the 1st generation to know, with certainty, that exoplanets are really out there. Impossibly starry skies over NYC Impossible, but magical, video of dark, starry skies over light-polluted New York City.  TESS planet hunter on its way "It's the beginning of a new era of exoplanet research." Wonderful image: Milky Way spins across the sky Composite made of images taken hourly from outside the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring, Australia.

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Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight You might catch 10 to 20 meteors per hour. The peak is probably Sunday morning. Photo: Guy Livesay. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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