July 28 - Eclipse Photos! And ... Top Stories

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Beautiful photos! Full moon eclipse and Mars Earth flew between the sun and Mars this week, so, during yesterday's total lunar eclipse, the moon and Mars were close. Photos from the EarthSky community here. We're in the middle of an eclipse season An eclipse season lasts a lunar month and typically includes 1 solar and 1 lunar eclipse. In 1 out of 7 eclipse seasons, the 1st eclipse comes early. Then we can have 3 eclipses. Watch for a 3rd eclipse in this eclipse season, on August 11. Kilauea volcano imagery you might have missed For more than 2 months, lava has been pouring from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, destroying homes and remaking the land. The vanishing of the 1st American dogs "It is fascinating that a huge population of dogs that inhabited all corners of the Americans for thousands of years could have disappeared so rapidly." These spacecraft are studying Mars dust Raging, planet-wide dust storms - like the one going on now - happen only every 6 to 8 years on Mars. Most Mars dust comes from one place “Mars wouldn’t be nearly this dusty if it wasn’t for this one enormous deposit that is gradually eroding over time and polluting the planet, essentially.” Subsurface lake discovered on Mars? If confirmed, this lake is likely salty and cold, but possibly habitable for some microorganisms. The Milky Way's long-lost sibling 2 billion years ago, the Andromeda galaxy - closest large spiral galaxy to our Milky Way - might have eaten another large galaxy. Wow! New volcano on Jupiter's moon Io The Juno spacecraft has found a new hot spot on Io, the most volcanically active world in our solar system. Young star caught eating its planet It had been theorized that some young stars might devour their planets. Now astronomers have the 1st solid evidence.

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Beautiful photos! Full moon eclipse and Mars Prabhakaran A wrote from Trichy, in India: "The full moon on the night of July 27-28, 2018 presented the longest and darkest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century. Totality spanned 1 hour 42 minutes and 57 seconds. The most distant and smallest full moon of the year passed through the center of the Earth’s dark umbral shadow which reached its maximum length and width for the year. This beautiful eclipse happened on the same night as the Mars opposition."

Beautiful photos! Full moon eclipse and Mars Tracey Slaven captured the moon and Mars from Port Elizabeth, South Africa. More photos here. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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