Friday, April 29, 2022

First solar eclipse of 2022 occurs Saturday. Here's what to expect.

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First solar eclipse of 2022 occurs Saturday. Here's what to expect.
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The first solar eclipse of 2022 occurs on Saturday, April 30, with skywatchers in parts of South America in good position to see it. Here's what to expect for this partial solar eclipse and what's coming up next with the sun and moon.
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The first solar eclipse of 2022 arrives this week across parts of the Southern Hemisphere - here's how you can watch the event live online from other parts of the world.
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Black Moon, meet the end of Ramadan. A rare type of moon will generate a solar eclipse on April 30 just ahead of one of the largest festivals in the Muslim calendar: Eid Al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of fasting. Depending on the first sighting of the crescent moon phase, Eid falls on May 1 or May 2 this year.
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Watch SpaceX to launch 53 Starlink satellites, land rocket tonight
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A Falcon 9 topped with 53 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off Friday at 5:27 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Here's how to watch it live.
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Launch No. 2! Rocket Lab will try to catch a booster with a helicopter after live launch
A screenshot from a Rocket Lab video showing a dummy booster being captured by a helicopter during a recent test (Rocket Lab via Twitter)
As if one rocket launch today wasn't enough, Rocket Lab is also ready to fly and this time they'll try to catch the Electron booster with a helicopter. The launch window opens at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT) here.
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ISS and China's space station photobomb 4 planets aligned in the sky (photo)
(Gianluca Masi/The Virtual Telescope Project)
Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi captured a stunning spaceship sight as the International Space Station and China's Tiangong core module passed near 4 planets this week. "While looking at the night sky is always amazing, sometimes the experience exceeds our expectations," Masi said. Here's how he took the photo.
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The new robotic arm for the International Space Station successfully made its first moves as two Russian cosmonauts performed a 7-hour spacewalk outside on Thursday.
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After years on the budget chopping block at NASA, the flying SOFIA telescope will soon land for good. The joint observatory with NASA and Germany will stop flying forever on Sept. 30.
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Do you have the artistic skills to reach the moon? If you think so, you're in luck. The Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), a space development company, and the community space program LifeShip have partnered to launch a competition that will send winning entries to the moon.
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Brilliant fireball over Mississippi sparks booms (and satellite photos)
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Around 9:03 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Wednesday , over 30 people from Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported looking up and seeing a fireball in the sky. Here's what a satellite saw.
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Stunning Mars images shows 'fingernail' gouging-like features
(ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
Scientists that that these faults on Mars, dubbed Tantalus Fossae, were created by the volcano Alba Mons, which is located to the west of the terrain visible in striking new views from Europe's Mars Express.
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Milky Way sparkles with telescopes in Atacama Desert in photo
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The Milky Way serves as a celestial pathway between two telescopes in a stunning image from Chile's Atacama Desert. The telescopes are part of La Silla Observatory, a facility of the European Southern Observatory that has been in operation since the 1960s.
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