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The Beaver Moon partial lunar eclipse tonight is a near-total eclipse, and will probably turn the moon dark overnight tonight even though it's not a true "Blood Moon." The moon will be 97% covered by Earth's shadow.
The Beaver Moon will pass through Earth's shadow in the longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years overnight tonight, but when? Depending on your time zone, it's either late tonight or early Friday. Here's what to know.
In the wee morning hours of Tuesday (Nov. 16), the seven-person crew of the International Space Station (ISS) awoke in alarm. A Russian missile test had just blasted a decommissioned Cosmos spy satellite into more than 1,500 pieces of space debris.
Rocket Lab successfully launched two satellites into orbit and aimed to recover the mission's booster, taking another step in its quest to build a partially reusable launch vehicle.
The new mission, called TOLIMAN after an ancient Arabic-derived name for Alpha Centauri, will carry a novel telescope fitted with a so-called diffractive pupil lens that spreads starlight into a flowerlike pattern.
The company is targeting January or February for its first Starship orbital launch attempt, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday (Nov. 17). And that initial landmark leap will ideally be followed by a number of others shortly thereafter.
November's full "Beaver Moon" will occur on Nov. 19 and will undergo a partial lunar eclipse, visible from eastern Asia, Australia, the Pacific Ocean, much of North America, South America and northwestern Europe.
The first full trailer for Season 6 of "The Expanse" has dropped and it shows an escalating, explosive and costly conflict. The sixth and final season looks like it's bursting at the seams with space battles.
