Saturday, September 8, 2018

Sept 8 - Top Stories This Week

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Good morning! Here’s the roundup for this week.

Watch online tonight, as asteroid sweeps past
Asteroid 2018 RC will pass Earth safely tonight, at about half the moon's distance, according to clocks in the Americas. Learn how to see it online.
All 8 planets in 1 night, from Rome
Gianluca Masi at the Virtual Telescope Project shared his adventure capturing 8 planets in a single night. "As humans," he wrote, "we need to feed our 5 senses with beauty." Read more.
Why you can smell rain
How your nose knows when it’s on the way. Read more.
Hear the vibration of the sun
"It has a warmth to it. It's just enough where I can almost feel the sound on my skin." Hear it for yourself.

Scientists have turned solar data into sound. Listen here. Image via NASA.
More top stories

Saturn's famous hexagon towers above cloudtops

Why were prehistoric insects so big?

Love vines suck life from wasps, leaving mummies

Watch it get hotter, 1880-2017

Jupiter's growing pains, explained
 

Stunning close-up view of cloud systems on Jupiter, from Juno’s Perijove 14 orbit in July, 2018. Image via NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

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Close-up on Cassiopeia the Queen
The constellation Cassiopeia the Queen has the distinct shape of a W or M. Find her in the north-northeast sky on September and October evenings.
4 planets from Hong Kong
View larger. | Photographer Matthew Chin captured planets Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus on Thursday night in the sky over Yuen Long, Hong Kong. 
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