July 15 - Moon and Venus, Ghostly Neutrino

July 15 Moon and Venus, Ghostly Neutrino by:

Tonight … Spectacular moon and Venus See the 2 brightest objects in the night sky, right next to each other, in the west after sunset. Ghostly neutrino caught in South Pole ice ushers in a new astronomy Last week, scientists announced the 1st known source for ghostly, high-energy neutrinos. The source is a blazar, a billion-solar-mass black hole 3.7 billion light-years away. The discovery establishes a new way to study the universe. See it! Moon sweeps past Mercury Some Northern and some Southern Hemisphere photos of Mercury from Saturday night. Watch this post, as we'll be adding moon and Venus pics from around the world today. Asteroid 2017 YE5 turns out to be double This near-Earth asteroid swept by Earth in late June. Turns out, it’s a double asteroid, with both bodies almost identical in size and not touching. It's only the 4th such object ever detected.

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See it! Moon sweeps past Mercury Suzanne Murphy in Wisconsin captured the moon and Mercury Saturday evening. More pics here.

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