Sunday, July 15, 2018

July 15 - Moon and Venus, Ghostly Neutrino

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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.

Tonight … Spectacular moon and Venus
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