For the first time, biologists have documented dueling parasites in South Florida. When love vines do battle with gall wasps, the result is wasp mummies. Read more.
An anomaly is something that deviates from what's standard or expected. This global warming visualization - created by Antti Lipponen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute - shows yearly temperature anomalies by country. Watch the animation.
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you can see the zodiacal light, or false dawn, at this time of year. If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, look for it after sunset. Read more.
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Gordon's winds were slightly below hurricane-force - just before 10 p.m. central last night - when it made landfall west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. Prior to a decline in wind speed, it was thought that Gordon would be the 1st Atlantic basin hurricane to make landfall in 2018. The current path of the storm indicates it will move inland over the lower Mississippi Valley through Wednesday, bringing rain. Read more.
View larger. | These 4 planets - from west to east, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars - have been dominating our evening sky. They'll stay up throughout September. Patrick Prokop wrote: "This is a 'mock-up' of the planets' views and positions. They don't look like this in the sky, but, basically, these are those bright jewels in the evening sky in early September. I took all these through my telescope on the evening of September 1, 2018, from my backyard and then made this composite." Thank you, Patrick!
