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A stellar vanishing act led to a revelation about an iceball far from the Sun: It has a thin atmosphere. It’s the smallest object with a known atmosphere in the entire solar system.
The object is 2002 XV93. It’s in the Kuiper Belt – a wide “doughnut” beyond the orbit of Neptune, the Sun’s outermost major planet. The belt contains millions of icy bodies, including Pluto...
After teaming up with the Sun to produce a solar eclipse today, the Moon will make another skywatching spectacle possible tonight – the Perseid meteor shower. It’s expected to be at its peak tonight. And since the Moon is new, it won’t be around to interfere with the sparklers.
The Perseids occur every August, as Earth flies through the orbital path of Comet Swift-Tutt...
The top of the world will see a total solar eclipse tomorrow. A partial eclipse will encompass a wider slice of the globe, including Alaska and parts of the northeastern United States.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun, blocking the Sun from view. The Sun’s hot but faint outer atmosphere, the corona, looks like silvery tendr...
A total solar eclipse is coming up on Wednesday. The Moon will cover the Sun, turning day to night across a narrow slice of the globe. Parts of Alaska and the northeastern United States will see a partial eclipse.
The timing of the eclipse is known down to the second, and has been for decades; astronomers can predict eclipses far into the future. But making such predic...
The Moon forms a nice triangle with the twins of Gemini at dawn tomorrow – the stars Castor and Pollux. Castor is to the left of the Moon, with brighter Pollux about the same distance to the lower left.
Castor consists of six known stars. We haven’t found planets orbiting any of them. Pollux is a single star. And it has one likely planet – a giant that’s much heavier t...