May 26 - Top Stories This Week

May 26 Top Stories This Week by:

A case against killing spiders Why it's a good idea to be nice to the spiders you meet in your house and consider a live-and-let-live policy. Look for the legendary green flash A sea horizon is best. Look at the last moment before the sun sets. Meet our solar system's 1st permanent immigrant Astronomers realized that the mysterious asteroid nestling in Jupiter's orbit is an immigrant, captured from another solar system. Exiled asteroid in outer reaches of solar system It was likely born in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, then flung billions of miles. Top tips for poison ivy Info and tips for summer itch-prevention. Fly through the Orion Nebula Glide through the spectacular Orion Nebula, in this new 3D visualization from NASA. Is Pluto made of a billion comets? Astronomers compared data from the 1st-ever Pluto flyby and a 1st-ever comet rendezvous mission to develop the ‘giant comet’ model of Pluto formation. What's this strange cloud? "Eerie!" thought Michael Scully in North Carolina on Monday morning, when he captured this image with his iPhone. Tonight … Moon and Jupiter  Saturday night's moon is even closer to Jupiter.

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Moon and Jupiter  After Venus sets in early evening, they're the 2 brightest objects out all night.

TESS planet-hunter swings by moon, snaps 1st test image This is the 1st test image from the newly launched TESS planet-hunter, showing a swath of the southern sky along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. How many unseen worlds orbit the stars in this image? Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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