May 9 - Fire and Ice

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Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano Kilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Here are images and video from its ongoing eruption in Hawaii. Snowball Earth due to plate tectonics? New research suggests that as great land plates began to shift and move on Earth's surface, our world became what geologists call a Snowball Earth. Earth and Jupiter are closest May 10 We went between Jupiter and the sun last night according to clocks in North America. But the giant planet will be closest to us tomorrow. Why? How to see Jupiter's moons With Jupiter now at its closest to Earth, turn binoculars or a telescope on the giant planet for a glimpse of its 4 largest moons.

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Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano Peer into Kīlauea's summit lava lake, now about 700 feet (200 meters) below the crater rim. Image via @USGSVolcanoes on Twitter.

View from space: Kilauea volcano NASA's Terra satellite acquired this image on May 6. Massive sulfur dioxide plumes from Kilauea volcano are shown here in yellow and green. A smaller, but thicker, sulfur dioxide gas plume can be seen coming from Kilauea. The prevailing trade winds blow the plumes to the southwest, out over the ocean. Image via NASA. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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May 8 - We Go Between the Sun and Jupiter

May 8 We Go Between the Sun and Jupiter by:

Tonight ... We go between the sun and Jupiter Jupiter - opposite the sun - rises when the sun sets. Watch for it ascending in the east in evening twilight. Then turn around and look for Venus in the west. Venus and Jupiter will be super bright as night falls, balancing the 2 sides of your sky. Astronomers' success with machine deep learning Deep learning is a form of artificial intelligence. In 2 unrelated studies, astronomers report "surprising" success using it to perform research that's hard or impossible otherwise. It's nesting season for sea turtles Adult female sea turtles - on beaches from North Carolina to Texas and throughout the Caribbean - are crawling out of the ocean and laying their eggs. Here's an update from a biologist who's been studying these turtles for 36 years. Why can't I find the Milky Way in May?     On May evenings, as viewed from Earth's Northern Hemisphere, the disk of the Milky Way galaxy lies as flat around our horizon as it can ...

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Tonight … We go between the sun and Jupiter In 2018, Jupiter lies in front of the faint constellation Libra the Scales. The closest star to Jupiter is Zubenelgenubi, Libra's alpha star. Jupiter looks over 100 times brighter to us than this bright star!

Why can't I find the Milky Way in May? Milky Way over Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, by Max Moorman Photography. Max caught this photo in the month of June, when the Milky Way returns to easy viewing in the evening sky. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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