Saturday, April 7, 2018

Apr 7 - Top Stories This Week

April 7
Top Stories This Week
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Tiangong-1's fiery death and ocean plunge
Reentry occurred April 2 in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Tahiti.
Life adrift in the clouds of Venus?
The case for the atmosphere of Venus as a possible niche for extraterrestrial microbial life.
April guide to the bright planets
What to look for in your skies, and when.
The amazing feathers of an outlandish bird
Super-black Bird of Paradise feathers absorb 99.95 percent of light that hits them. 
Astronomers spy most distant star yet
Shining only 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang.
Sahara Desert is expanding
The world's largest desert has grown by 10 percent since 1920.
Watch a robot fish swim in the ocean
SoFi - a robot fish made of silicone rubber - can swim alongside real fish.
Does space weather threaten high-tech life?
"The wired Earth of the 21st century is at the mercy of the volatile nature of the sun."
Tonight … 2018's closest far moon
The last quarter moon you'll see late tonight is aligned with 2018's closest apogee, that is, the closest of the moon's farthest points in its monthly orbit. And that's no surprise …

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Before dawn tomorrow … Moon, Saturn, Mars
Before dawn Sunday morning, you'll see these 3 worlds more or less in a line.
Tonight … 2018's closest far moon
A last quarter moon - like the one you'll see before dawn Sunday - by Chirag Upreti in the Bronx, New York.
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