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A 'Buck Moon' lunar eclipse occurs this Fourth of July. Don't expect to see much.

For the past week, I have been seeing quite a number of websites promoting an eclipse of the full moon on the night of the Fourth of July U.S. holiday. One website even went so far as to list the lunar eclipse among the top 10 "can't miss" celestial events of ...

Celestial fireworks: See Jupiter and Saturn with a 'Buck Moon' lunar eclipse this Fourth of July weekend

Nature has its own fireworks in store this Independence Day weekend with a stunning full moon ornamented by two shining planets. This upcoming holiday weekend, eyes all over the United States will be turned to the skies for various firework shows and ...

About halfway through their historic mission, a pair of NASA astronauts are preparing for their return

Washington Post

Washington Post

They've been up there about a month now, floating around on the International Space Station, keeping tabs on their ride home. One, NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, has taken a pair of spacewalks. The other, Doug Hurley, has turned his Twitter feed into a ...

Cosmic 'fireworks' shine in baby star cluster and distant galaxy

A high-powered telescope array has caught the brilliant fireworks-like "streamers" of gas formed during an early stage of star development in a giant cluster. That process may take a million years to complete, according to scientists who captured a new look at ...

Toward super-fast motion of vortices in superconductors

An international team of scientists from Austria, Germany, and Ukraine has found a new superconducting system in which magnetic flux quanta can move at velocities of 10 to 15 km/s. This opens access to investigations of the rich physics of non-equilibrium ...

Scientific 'red flag' reveals new clues about our galaxy

Optical Milky Way image. Credit: Axel Mellinger. Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way—a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances—could yield new clues to the fundamental source of our ...

The world endured 2 extra heatwave days per decade since 1950 – but the worst is yet to come

The term "heatwave" is no stranger to Australians. Defined as when conditions are excessively hot for at least three days in a row, these extreme temperature events have always punctuated our climate. With many of us in the thick of winter dreaming of ...

Mars Perseverance launch delayed; NASA not asking people to stay at home for launch

Florida Today

Florida Today

NASA's Mars Perseverance launch, which will send a rover and a helicopter to the red planet later this month has been delayed. Again. The mission is now slated to launch atop United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket July 30 from Cape Canaveral Air Force ...

The sixth sense of animals: An early warning system for earthquakes?

Even today, nobody can reliably predict when and where an earthquake will occur. However, eyewitnesses have repeatedly reported that animals behave unusually before an earthquake. In an international cooperation project, researchers from the Max ...

MIT Technology Review

Are we making spacecraft too autonomous?

MIT Technology Review

When SpaceX's Crew Dragon took NASA astronauts to the ISS near the end of May, the launch brought back a familiar sight. For the first time since the space shuttle was retired, American rockets were launching from American soil to take Americans into ...