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Archive for February 17th, 2025

The Winter Triangle meets the ‘Mars Triangle’ in the night sky this month

February 17th, 2025 by me

For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an isosceles triangle with the two bright stars marking the heads of the Gemini Twins, Pollux and Castor.

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Does the moon look smaller tonight? Here’s why a ‘micromoon’ rises

February 17th, 2025 by me

The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the night sky.

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Watch the sun erupt in new images from NOAA’s weather satellite

February 17th, 2025 by me

A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one of our star’s fiery outbursts — and Mercury is in the picture.

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Some planet-forming stars never ‘grow up’ and lose their ‘Peter Pan’ disks

February 17th, 2025 by me

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a planet-forming disk around a low-mass star, finding it contains chemical signatures never seen before in such a disk.

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Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their data bounced off an airplane

February 17th, 2025 by me

By tracking the TV signal back to the plane that was reflecting it towards the Murchison Wide-field Array, astronomers will be able to learn how to remove it from their data.

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