Apr 7 - Top Stories This Week

April 7 Top Stories This Week by:

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. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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