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Archive for February, 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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‘City-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say

February 16th, 2025 by me

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.

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Continent-size blobs in Earth’s mantle are a billion years old, ancient crystals reveal

February 16th, 2025 by me

New research suggests that dark energy isn’t needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion.

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‘Sailing’ satellites of the future could provide early warning of dangerous space weather

February 16th, 2025 by me

‘Sailing’ satellites of the future could provide early warning of dangerous space weather

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