May 24 - Green Flash

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Tonight … The legendary green flash A sea horizon is best for seeing a green flash, but any distant, flat horizon will do. Look at the last moment before the sun sets. Astronomers scrutinize Black Widow pulsar They observed 2 intense regions of radiation on this rapidly spinning pulsar some 6,500 light-years away. "Like seeing a flea on the surface of Pluto," they said. What's this strange cloud? "Eerie!" thought Michael Scully in North Carolina on Monday morning, when he captured this image with his iPhone. Fly through the Orion Nebula Take 3 minutes to glide through the spectacular Orion Nebula, in this new 3D visualization from NASA.

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Look for the legendary green flash Green flash atop sun pyramid via astrophotographer Colin Legg in Australia.

What's this strange cloud? Turns out it was a rocket launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, of an uncrewed Cygnus cargo ship, due to reach the International Space Station today. Photo by Michael Scully. More photos and videos 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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