June 16 - Top Stories This Week

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No Planet Nine? Collective gravity to explain weird orbits? Astronomers have been searching for a Planet Nine for about 2 years and have yet to spot it. ​A giant dust storm is raging on Mars   One of the thickest dust storms ever seen on Mars has forced the Opportunity rover to suspend science operations. Watch a total lunar eclipse Take 37 seconds to watch the January 31, 2018, super Blue Moon eclipse, from Colin Legg in Australia. End of the journey for iceberg B-15? It was the largest iceberg ever recorded to have broken from Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf. See its photo from space, and the track of its journey. The strange case for life in other universes More on mind-boggling new studies suggesting there could be many parallel universes beyond our own, where life is able to flourish. How far away was that lightning? When you see a flash of lightning, do you immediately start counting the seconds until it thunders? The secrets of night-shining clouds Noctilucent or night-shining clouds always return to northern skies around this time of year. What we inherited from bug-eating mammal ancestors If you’re so inclined, go ahead and munch on a grasshopper. The genes needed to digest bugs are still in our genome. Tonight … Moon, Venus, Mercury  Now the moon has waxed larger in the west at evening twilight. It's above Venus and Mercury, pointing toward them.

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Tonight … Moon, Venus, Mercury After today, the moon will continue waxing larger each evening and shifting toward the east, following its orbit around Earth and subsequent path across our sky.

Storm on the way Storm heading towards Taylor’s Lake near Horsham, Australia, on June 11. Photo by Lynton Brown. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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