Wednesday, March 28, 2018

March 28 - Human, Not Alien

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Mysterious skeleton is human, not alien
It turns out that this strange, tiny skeleton is without a doubt human.
Kepler solves star explosion mystery
An astronomer said, "When I first saw the Kepler data, my jaw dropped. I said, ‘Oh wow!’"
Watch spacewalk tomorrow
On Thursday, 2 astronauts will perform a spacewalk. It's scheduled to begin at about 12:10 UTC (8:10 a.m. EDT; translate to your timezone) and will last about 6.5 hours. How to watch live.
Tonight … Venus and Uranus meet
Brilliant Venus is low in the west in evening twilight now, a wonderful sight to see. Thursday evening, a vastly fainter planet, Uranus, is in conjunction with Venus on our sky's dome.

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The colors of stars
Photographer Amanda Cross wrote, “I wanted to compare the colors of different stars next to each other. These are stacks of Rigel, Betelgeuse and Sirius. I took individual images 60 seconds apart and presented them together.”
Tonight … Venus and Uranus meet
Venus is very bright and low in the west after sunset. Uranus is up there, but too faint to be seen with the eye.
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