July 21 - Top Stories This Week

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Volcano discovered under fastest-melting Antarctic glacier A recent study has discovered a volcano beneath Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. Ghostly neutrino caught in South Pole ice ushers in a new astronomy Scientists say the source for ghostly, high-energy neutrinos is a blazar, a billion-solar-mass black hole 3.7 billion light-years away. Whoa! Flash flood footage from Utah Reed Timmer video from July 16 in Johnson Canyon, Utah. 5 things we know - and 5 we don’t - about 'Oumuamua #1. We know it's not from around here. Astronomers find 'ghost dunes' on Mars Robot orbiters circling Mars have acquired images of "ghost dunes." Video: Witness the birth of an iceberg This iceberg broke off Greenland’s Helheim Glacier on June 22. Apollo and the moon-landing hoax Why do people persist in denying that humans landed on the moon? Mars! Mars! Mars! We're 1 week away from Mars' 2018 close opposition, best appearance of Mars since 2003. It's extremely bright and very red, ascending in the east each evening now, crossing the sky for the rest of the night. Photos from the EarthSky community here.  Tonight … Moon still near Jupiter You'll notice Jupiter easily as the nearest bright star to the moon.

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Mars! Mars! Mars! Mars, from Tucson, Arizona, on July 19. Eliot Herman wrote: “Mars is bright and dominates the sky as it approaches its close opposition. Finally a clear night … This is a stack of images (every 5 minutes) acquired immediately after moonset, assembled and adjusted in Photoshop."

Tonight … Moon still near Jupiter Keep watching the moon. It'll move past Saturn, then Mars, in the week ahead. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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